
Take a look at the dreamy book tunnels in this beautiful Beijing bookstore.
Here’s another one for our ever-growing post-quarantine travel wish lists (assuming U.S. passports aren’t just cancelled forever now): Beijing’s Zhongshuge bookstore, which features some very dreamy book tunnels.
According to X+Living, the design firm behind the literary wonderland, the tunnels are an homage to the moon gates in traditional Chinese gardens. They lead to different spaces in the store, including a children’s reading room and a café.
In the meantime, drool over the photos on X+Living’s website, and while you’re there, check out the interiors of Zhongshuge’s Chongqing location—equally breathtaking, but slightly more Escher-esque.
So many magnificent bookstores, so little capacity to travel more than a mile from my apartment…
[h/t Insider]

Jessie Gaynor
Jessie Gaynor is a senior editor at Lit Hub whose writing has appeared in McSweeney's, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. Her debut novel, The Glow was published by Random House in 2023. You can buy it here.