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Fleeing Occupied Raqqa

Fleeing Occupied Raqqa

Memories Always Hit You Hardest When You’re Leaving,
and the Good Ones are the Most Painful of All

By Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple | May 17, 2018

Celebrating the Art of the Book Cover

Celebrating the Art of the Book Cover

Peter Mendelsund, Jaya Miceli, Oliver Munday, Helen Yentus, and 100 Beautiful Books

By Literary Hub | May 17, 2018

The Art of the Moving Book Cover

The Art of the Moving Book Cover

Michael Salu on Building a Dynamic Visual Identity for Books Online

By Michael Salu | May 16, 2018

John Berger Has Some Thoughts About Smoking

John Berger Has Some Thoughts About Smoking

From Smoke, with Illustrations by Selçuk Demirel

By John Berger | May 3, 2018

50 Pulp Cover Treatments of Classic Works of Literature

50 Pulp Cover Treatments of Classic Works of Literature

Guns, Broads, Beefcake, Literariness

By Emily Temple | May 2, 2018

Some of the First Sketches of Winnie-the-Pooh

Some of the First Sketches of Winnie-the-Pooh

How a Honey-Loving Bear Revolutionized Children's Literature

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Vita Sackville-West Wrote a Very, Very Tiny Novel for the Queen's Dollhouse

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