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What's the Point of <br>Wearing Clothes?

What's the Point of
Wearing Clothes?

Shahidha Bari on the Pleasures and Politics of What We Wear

By Shahidha Bari | April 24, 2020

<em>Mr. Coccus</em>, and Other Suggested Picture Books for Young Microbiologists

Mr. Coccus, and Other Suggested Picture Books for Young Microbiologists

From Cartoonist Tom Gauld's New Book

By Tom Gauld | April 13, 2020

Betsey Johnson on the Eve of a Cotton Lycra Revolution

Betsey Johnson on the Eve of a Cotton Lycra Revolution

When The Fashion Icon Had to Take Control of Her Career

By Betsey Johnson and Mark Vitulano | April 10, 2020

Still Not Gonna Read the Classics in Quarantine? Here Are Drawings.

Still Not Gonna Read the Classics in Quarantine? Here Are Drawings.

Lisa Brown's Illustrated SparkNotes

By Lisa Brown | April 9, 2020

How to Organize Your <br>Home Office

How to Organize Your
Home Office

Pre-Pandemic Advice for Post-Pandemic Life

By Ronda Kaysen and Michelle Higgins | April 3, 2020

Finding, Hiding, Hoarding: On Making Art From Trash

Finding, Hiding, Hoarding: On Making Art From Trash

Nick Flynn's Found Collages

By Nick Flynn | April 2, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Departure(s)
  • The Flower Bearers
  • Eating Ashes
  • Every One Still Here: Stories
  • Once There Was a Town: The Memory Books of a Lost Jewish World
  • The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII

The 14 Best Book Covers
of March

By Emily Temple | March 31, 2020

This 1940s Dutch children's book depicts Hitler as a bug who eventually gets eaten.

By Olivia Rutigliano | March 11, 2020

Illustrating the Domestic Bliss of Alice B. Toklas and
Gertrude Stein

By Maira Kalman | March 4, 2020

The 16 Best Book Covers of February

The 16 Best Book Covers of February

To Beat Back the Winter Doldrums

By Emily Temple | February 28, 2020

The 10 Best Book Covers<br> of January

The 10 Best Book Covers
of January

To Distract You From the Dismal Skies

By Emily Temple | January 31, 2020

Belletrist Studio Sessions: <br>Mira Jacob on Drawing the America She Loves

Belletrist Studio Sessions:
Mira Jacob on Drawing the America She Loves

Behind the Scenes with the Author of Good Talk

By Literary Hub | January 28, 2020

Searching for <em>Guernica</em>: A Night at the Museum with Picasso

Searching for Guernica: A Night at the Museum with Picasso

An Art World Sleepover with Adel Abdessemed and Christophe Ono-dit-Biot

By Christophe Ono-dit-Biot and Adel Abdessemed | January 27, 2020

Wole Soyinka on Yoruba Weddings, Nigerian Movies, and Making Traditions New

Wole Soyinka on Yoruba Weddings, Nigerian Movies, and Making Traditions New

The Danger of Naming Art Before It Has Been Made

By Wole Soyinka | January 23, 2020

How a Book Cover Gets Made: Nicole Caputo on Belletrist's Studio Sessions

How a Book Cover Gets Made: Nicole Caputo on Belletrist's Studio Sessions

Behind the Scenes with the Catapult and Counterpoint Creative Director

By Literary Hub | January 21, 2020

On Contemporary Minimalism's Maximal Lies

On Contemporary Minimalism's Maximal Lies

Andru Okun Reads Kyle Chayka, Jenny Odell, and Oli Mould

By Andru Okun | January 17, 2020

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