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The 13 Best Art and Design Books of 2013
The 13 Best Art and Design Books of 2013

Imaginative maps, illuminating infographics, literary cats, vintage Soviet propaganda, Gertrude Stein’s favorite objects, and other treats for eye and spirit.

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Hemingway on Not Writing for Free and How to Run a First-Rate Publication
Hemingway on Not Writing for Free and How to Run a First-Rate Publication

Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.

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The Creative Pace of the 20th Century’s Greatest Authors, Visualized
The Creative Pace of the 20th Century’s Greatest Authors, Visualized

A visual taxonomy of lives and literary greatness.

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The 13 Best Biographies, Memoirs, and History Books of 2013
The 13 Best Biographies, Memoirs, and History Books of 2013

From Alan Turing to Susan Sontag, by way of a lost cat, a fierce Victorian lady-journalist, and some very odd creative habits.

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Duke Ellington’s Diet
Duke Ellington’s Diet

What the celebrated composer’s relationship with food reveals about the inner conflicts we share.

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The Art of Rube Goldberg
The Art of Rube Goldberg

“An artist who followed the logic of the machine to its comic climax.”

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How Should We Live: History’s Forgotten Wisdom on Love, Time, Family, Empathy, and Other Aspects of the Art of Living
How Should We Live: History’s Forgotten Wisdom on Love, Time, Family, Empathy, and Other Aspects of the Art of Living

“How to pursue the art of living has become the great quandary of our age… The future of the art of living can be found by gazing into the past.”

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Einstein on Why We Are Alive
Einstein on Why We Are Alive

The meaning of human existence in five lines.

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Charles Dickens’s Heartening Fan Mail to George Eliot
Charles Dickens’s Heartening Fan Mail to George Eliot

“The exquisite truth and delicacy, both of the humour and the pathos of those stories, I have never seen the like of.”

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Voltaire on the Perils of Censorship, the Freedom of the Press, and the Rewards of Reading
Voltaire on the Perils of Censorship, the Freedom of the Press, and the Rewards of Reading

“The man of taste will read only what is good; but the statesman will permit both bad and good.”

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