More fetching than a girl with a dragon tattoo has always been a girl with a Penguin Classic. With e-books, you have no idea what anyone is reading. This is an incalculable loss, not just to fleeting crushes but to civilization.
- Dwight Garner, our new crush, in his Sunday piece, “The Way We Read Now.”

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The F.Scott Fitzgeralds designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith

To mark the 70th anniversary of the death of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Penguin Classics have published a stunning new hardback series of his works. The series comprises of his five generation-defining novels; The Great GatsbyTender is the NightThis Side of ParadiseThe Last Tycoon and The Beautiful and Damned as well as Flappers and Philosophers, Fitzgerald’s collected short stories.

These sumptuous new editions are all beautifully styled with art deco patterning on elegant foil jackets, each complete with matching bookmark.

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“The Brain” is a 14,280 cubic-foot cinematic laboratory where the owner, a filmmaker, can work out ideas. By Olson Kundig Architects.