No, Beinecke Library is not specially designed to suffocate humans in the event of a fire.

No, Beinecke Library is not specially designed to suffocate humans in the event of a fire.

By Walker Caplan | February 16, 2021

Here is a deeply soothing bookmaking video for your Friday escape.

Here is a deeply soothing bookmaking video for your Friday escape.

By Jonny Diamond | February 12, 2021

How America Has Always Advertised the Next Golden Age of Computers

How America Has Always Advertised the Next Golden Age of Computers

A Brief History of Selling the Future

By Ryan Mungia | February 11, 2021

Rooms of Their Own: Where Some of the Best Women Writers Created Art

Rooms of Their Own: Where Some of the Best Women Writers Created Art

Lauren Marino on the Spaces of Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, and Others

By Lauren Marino | February 4, 2021

Here's the very cool cover for Colson Whitehead's next novel, <em>Harlem Shuffle</em>.

Here's the very cool cover for Colson Whitehead's next novel, Harlem Shuffle.

By Emily Temple | February 3, 2021

Ben Hopkins on Conjuring the Power of Gothic Architecture<br> in Fiction

Ben Hopkins on Conjuring the Power of Gothic Architecture
in Fiction

The Author of Cathedral in Conversation With Jane Ciabattari

By Jane Ciabattari | January 29, 2021

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By Emily Temple | January 28, 2021

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Check out these vintage pulp covers for classic Patricia Highsmith novels.

By Emily Temple | January 19, 2021

If you miss visiting the library, try the Internet Archive's new virtual browsing tool.

If you miss visiting the library, try the Internet Archive's new virtual browsing tool.

By Walker Caplan | January 11, 2021

Is the next book cover trend . . . rainbows?

Is the next book cover trend . . . rainbows?

By Emily Temple | January 8, 2021

Sometimes You Just Need a Math Prodigy to Explain the Quotidian Uses of the Fourth Dimension

Sometimes You Just Need a Math Prodigy to Explain the Quotidian Uses of the Fourth Dimension

Milo Beckman On Visual Analogies, Dimensionality, and
How We Organize Ourselves

By Milo Beckman | January 8, 2021

Christopher Hitchens's backlist is getting a cool new redesign.

Christopher Hitchens's backlist is getting a cool new redesign.

By Emily Temple | December 17, 2020

Elle Hearns on Leading a Movement for Black Trans Lives

Elle Hearns on Leading a Movement for Black Trans Lives

From the ArtCenter College of Design’s Bi-Weekly Podcast

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Who wore it better? US book covers vs. their UK counterparts.

Who wore it better? US book covers vs. their UK counterparts.

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How to Give Octavia Butler the Covers She Deserves

How to Give Octavia Butler the Covers She Deserves

Repackaging the Patternist Series for the Mother of Afrofuturism

By Elizabeth Connor | December 15, 2020

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