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“Object” is a category for books that put material things at the center of attention—artifacts, tools, artworks, heirlooms, and designed products—and explore their making, use, meanings, and social lives. It spans nonfiction on material culture, design, craft, archaeology, art history, collecting, repair, provenance, conservation, and sustainability, as well as theoretical perspectives on how objects shape human experience. It also includes fiction in which a specific object drives the plot, links characters across time and place, or even takes on a voice or agency, illuminating themes of memory, identity, value, ownership, and desire. From museum catalogs and maker narratives to essays on consumer goods and stories about talismans and relics, “Object” foregrounds how things hold histories and connect people.

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