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    Walking

    How Do We Reclaim American Cities for People Who Walk?

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    Design

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    Graphic Novels

    What Gets Lost (and Found) in Translating Prose to Comics

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    graphic biography

    SAMO: The Origins of Jean-Michel Basquiat

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    Graphic Novels

    Gabrielle Bellot on the Dreamy, Queer Beauty of On a Sunbeam

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    Book Covers

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    The Hub

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    The Hub

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    Author Photos

    Author Photos: A Taxonomy

    By Emily Temple  May 10, 2019
    Graphic Novels

    Illustrating the Visual Illusions of Walter Benjamin’s Mind

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    Author Photos

    Taking an Author’s Photo Is Like Going on a First Date

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    Behind the Book Cover

    How to Use Red, White, and Blue on a Book Cover (Without Going Too Patriotic)

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    Book News

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    By Emily Temple  May 1, 2019
    Design

    The 16 Best Book Covers of April

    By Emily Temple  April 30, 2019
    News and Culture

    25 of the Best Covers for Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

    By Emily Temple  April 15, 2019
    News and Culture

    Read from the Graphic Novelization of
    The Handmaid’s Tale

    By Renee Nault  April 5, 2019
    Children's Lit

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    Feature

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    Graphic Novels

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    Feature

    The 50 Best Slaughterhouse-Five Covers from Around the World

    By Emily Temple  March 29, 2019
    Design

    The 17 Best Book Covers of March

    By Emily Temple  March 27, 2019
    Feature

    How T Kira Madden’s Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls Got Its Glitter

    By Tree Abraham  March 25, 2019
    Badass Women

    Finding the Woman Who Designed the Creature from the Black Lagoon

    By Literary Disco  March 25, 2019
    Excerpts

    Samuel Beckett, Thrower of Shade

    By Frederic Pajak  March 18, 2019
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