The 60 Best Book Covers of 2016, As Chosen By Designers

The 60 Best Book Covers of 2016, As Chosen By Designers

As chosen by the best book cover designers in the business

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Fiction Inspired by Edward Hopper

Fiction Inspired by Edward Hopper

Read Lawrence Block's 'Autumn in the Automat'

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18 Non-Book Gifts for Literary People

18 Non-Book Gifts for Literary People

What do you give someone who already has every book?

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Shirley Hazzard's Teenage Spy Career

Shirley Hazzard's Teenage Spy Career

Paul French on the Late Writer's Brush with Espionage

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Please Don't Make Your Child Read Hemingway

Please Don't Make Your Child Read Hemingway

(Because why would you want to?)

By Emily Temple | December 20, 2016

A Long-Ago Christmas in the Most Remote Place on Earth

A Long-Ago Christmas in the Most Remote Place on Earth

How a Group of 20th Century Arctic Explorers Celebrated the Holidays

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Rabih Alameddine is Amplifying the Images and Art of Aleppo

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The Wood for the Trees: One Man's Long View of Nature

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Black Sunset: Hollywood Sex, Lies, Glamour, Betrayal, and Raging Egos

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Remembering the Lessons of Kundera and Hrabal's Czechoslovakia

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Growing Up Under the Shadow of Fidel

Growing Up Under the Shadow of Fidel

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10 Things You Didn't Know About How the <em>NY Times</em> Book Review Works

10 Things You Didn't Know About How the NY Times Book Review Works

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Obama: On the End of a Literary Presidency

Obama: On the End of a Literary Presidency

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Pedro Almodóvar on Adapting Alice Munro for the Screen

Pedro Almodóvar on Adapting Alice Munro for the Screen

"Munro’s inspiration has meant a real moral, aesthetic, and tonal adventure"

By Pedro Almodóvar | December 15, 2016

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