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    By Emily Temple  November 30, 2022
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    Ghostly Survivals: Michael Kimmelman and Lucy Sante on a Shapeshifting City

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    Toys

    How LEGO Marked and Marketed the Fall of the Berlin Wall

    By Jens Andersen  November 22, 2022
    Offices

    What is an Office, Really? How Ideas Take Shape in Analog Spaces

    By David Sax  November 17, 2022
    Writer's Homes

    Black Culture as Design and Lifestyle: At Home with Jason Reynolds

    By Jeanine Hays and Bryan Mason  November 15, 2022
    Illustrations

    Overhead at Literary Speed Dating: Scenes from the Center for Fiction

    By Kathleen Radigan  November 14, 2022
    Book Covers

    The 10 Best Book Covers of October

    By Emily Temple  October 31, 2022
    The Hub

    Cover reveal: See the cover for Jane Wong’s Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City.

    By Literary Hub  October 27, 2022
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    The Nine Lives of a Cat (Book Cover)

    By Bob Eckstein  October 26, 2022
    The Hub

    Cover reveal: See the cover for Luis Alberto Urrea’s Good Night, Irene.

    By Literary Hub  October 21, 2022
    Counterculture

    “I Was a Seventeen-Year-Old Pornographer.” Steven Heller on His Stint as Art Director of the Underground

    By Steven Heller  October 21, 2022
    The Hub

    Cover reveal: Stephen Buoro’s The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa.

    By Literary Hub  October 19, 2022
    Monuments

    How Monuments Help Us Remember—Or Not Remember—the Past

    By Andrew Shanken  October 18, 2022
    Cover Reveal

    Cover reveal: check out Jai Chakrabarti’s A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness.

    By Eloise King-Clements  October 12, 2022
    News and Culture

    Arwen Donahue on the Doubts Left Behind By Sudden Death

    By Arwen Donahue  October 12, 2022
    Cover Reveal

    Cover reveal: See the cover for Gerardo Sámano Córdova’s Monstrilio.

    By Literary Hub  October 4, 2022
    Book Covers

    The 15 Best Book Covers of September

    By Emily Temple  September 29, 2022
    Cover Reveal

    Cover reveal: See the cover for Clancy Martin’s How Not to Kill Yourself.

    By Literary Hub  September 28, 2022
    Design

    Fury Made Visible: Call and Response for Civil Rights through Graphic Design

    By Silas Munro  September 21, 2022
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    The Lost Stitch, The Loosened Tile: Akiko Busch on the Ambiguities of Home

    By Akiko Busch  September 19, 2022
    Book Covers

    The 11 Best Book Covers of August

    By Emily Temple  August 31, 2022
    The Hub

    Here’s another incredibly strange dream-like Chinese bookstore.

    By Jonny Diamond  August 29, 2022
    The Hub

    Cover reveal: See the cover for Joy Castro’s One Brilliant Flame.

    By Emily Temple  August 19, 2022
    The Hub

    Cover reveal: See the cover for Tiffany McDaniel’s On the Savage Side.

    By Literary Hub  August 18, 2022
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    Cover Reveal: See the cover for Erica Berry’s debut Wolfish.

    By Literary Hub  August 4, 2022
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