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Culture

Culture at This Week's Cover is the week's frame: pictures, rooms, and the people who stay after the issue is off the stand.

The week the cover learned to wait quietly

A desk story about a cover that waited out the week, written to prove the new editorial desk can save a draft and publish it onto the magazine.

This Week's Cover treats the frame as a room: one picture, a week of culture inside it, and the names that stay after the issue closes.

The name on the cover is set in metal and in pixels. This Week's Cover watches the ink dry and asks which letters are allowed to stay.