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  1. chapters
    What a School-bus Crash in Jerusalem Reveals About Life in Occupied PalestineA deadly collision exposes the system of checkpoints and borders that made it inevitable.
    By Nathan Thrall
  2. street view
    Thomas Heatherwick Thinks Nearly All New Buildings Are BoringA critique of his critique.
    By Justin Davidson
  3. photography
    When New York Started to Wake UpThe photographs in Metropolitan Melancholia, made in 2021 and 2022, document a city learning to un-shelter in place.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  4. chapters
    Sofia Coppola’s BedroomsThe director’s new book, Archive, is a showcase for the little temples, or little cells, she creates for her characters.
    By Katie McDonough
  5. books
    Dory Fantasmagory Is Some of the Best Children’s Literature in YearsIn the six-book series, author Abby Hanlon embraces the messier parts of childhood and raising children.
    By Genevieve Smith
  6. interior design
    Why Young Collectors Are Buying Fussy AntiquesTalking with Michael Diaz-Griffith, author of The New Antiquarians, about the renewed interest in very old things.
    By Diana Budds
  7. books
    The 8 Best New Design, Architecture, and Urbanism Books Out This SummerIncluding a look at Isamu Noguchi’s affinity for Greece and David Adjaye’s tactile architecture.
    By Curbed Staff
  8. books
    New York City’s Latest Specialty Libraries for Design ObsessivesFrom critic Michael Sorkin’s collection at CUNY to the Brazilian modernism archive at R & Company.
    By Diana Budds
  9. design
    Mining the Milton Glaser ArchivesFrom never-printed Broadway posters to a Manhattan phone-book cover, seven works from the designer’s early decades.
    By Diana Budds
  10. look book
    The Look Book Goes to Catherine Lacey’s Book LaunchOn a recent Thursday, the novelist spoke to critic Merve Emre about her new book, Biography of X, at Greenlight Bookstore.
    By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell
  11. books
    The 9 Best Architecture, Design, and Urbanism Books Out This SpringIncluding a compendium of Milton Glaser’s illustrations and a delightful collection of underground weed ads.
    By Curbed Staff
  12. books
    A Visit to the Home of Dansk’s Most Prolific DesignerAn excerpt from Jens Quistgaard: The Sculpting Designer.
    By The Editors
  13. street view
    An Office Is Wherever We Decide It IsA new book chronicles employers’, architects’, and employees’ relentless reinvention of the workplace.
    By Justin Davidson
  14. gift guide
    The Best New Books for Design, Architecture, and Urbanism EnthusiastsFrom an encyclopedia of furniture to an especially gorgeous travel guide to Florida.
    By Curbed Staff
  15. books
    Walking the Mall With Alexandra LangeThe architecture critic and Meet Me by the Fountain author sizes up her local food court.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  16. objects of desire
    Inside the Obsessive World of Taschen’s Custom Book StandsThe publisher’s 50-pound editions are too big for most furniture, so it’s been making its own.
    By Diana Budds
  17. street view
    What’s a Bicycle For?A new book digs into our ambivalent relationship with life on two wheels.
    By Justin Davidson
  18. design edit
    Death Masks, Dopamine Décor, Antiquarian Books, and More Design FindsPlus Julio Torres’s story about a plunger that just wants to be a vase.
    By Diana Budds
  19. books
    What Will It Take to Design (Actually) Healthy Cities?The Topography of Wellness explores a century of how we’ve gotten it wrong and the resilient systems we need to get it right.
    By Diana Budds
  20. books
    Walking the Streets, Looking for a Long-Lost MadamThe historian Debby Applegate knows where all the best disreputables once hung out.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  21. architecture
    The Candy-Colored Tudors and Mini Mediterranean Palaces of Queens‘All the Queens Houses’ shows the most diverse borough’s most diverse residences.
    By Diana Budds
  22. books
    The Power Broker Is Still Not Available As an E-Book. Except … It Is.“A myth,” says Robert Caro’s publisher. Yet, somehow, I just bought the Kindle edition.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  23. mutual aid
    A New Network of Little Free Libraries Stocks Exclusively BIPOC Authors“A lot of people don’t have exposure to Black authors; I didn’t.”
    By Diana Budds
  24. in the stacks
    How the Strand Lost Its WorkersThe bookstore’s owner says it’s hanging by a thread — and staff say they’re the ones paying the price.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  25. up high
    This Artist Posed As a Hungarian Billionaire Buyer to Get Into 25 PenthousesAdopting a new persona, then photographing the view from the 100th floor.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  26. at home
    Your Quarantine Clutter Has a Long and Distinguished HistoryEmbrace the mess.
    By Alexandra Lange
  27. space of the week
    An Insider’s View of the Grit and Glamour of the Fashion WorldAmy Fine Collins’s new book, The International Best-Dressed List, chronicles the history of stylish, larger-than-life personalities.
    By Wendy Goodman
  28. space of the week
    Inside a Book Editor’s Legendary Home LibraryMadeline Kripke has been known to walk visitors through her shelves with a flashlight in hand and card catalogue in her head.
    By Wendy Lubovich
  29. space of the week
    Inside a Book Editor’s Legendary Home LibraryMadeline Kripke has been known to walk visitors through her shelves with a flashlight in hand and card catalogue in her head.
    By Wendy Lubovich
  30. design hunting
    Take a Rare Glimpse Inside the Art-Filled Homes of ArtistsA new book takes you inside the lofts, townhouses, and upstate retreats of Will Cotton, Rashid Johnson, and Marilyn Minter.
    By Wendy Goodman
  31. design hunting
    Design Hunting: Albert Hadley’s Books, Moss and Ferns in Midtown, and Dinner With Anya HindmarchPlus, Simon Doonan — a Fashion Week must.
    By Wendy Goodman