The 12 Best Book Covers of May

The 12 Best Book Covers of May

The Sun is Shining

By Emily Temple | May 31, 2023

A Place of Both Solitude and Belonging: In Praise of the Park Bench

A Place of Both Solitude and Belonging: In Praise of the Park Bench

Edwin Heathcote Considers This “Most Archetypal” Piece of Furniture

By Edwin Heathcote | May 31, 2023

Edward Carey gives us a preview of the illustrations in his next novel, <em>Edith Holler</em>.

Edward Carey gives us a preview of the illustrations in his next novel, Edith Holler.

By Edward Carey | May 25, 2023

How a Fabulist Painting Showed Jenny Fran Davis the Cover of <em>Dykette</em>

How a Fabulist Painting Showed Jenny Fran Davis the Cover of Dykette

On the Magical-Realist Painter John Wilde, Butches and Femmes, and How the Author Saw Herself In An Artwork

By Jenny Fran Davis | May 24, 2023

On Victorian Paleoart and the Birth of a Sci-Fi Novel

On Victorian Paleoart and the Birth of a Sci-Fi Novel

C. E. McGill Considers Frankenstein’s Monster and Gothic Sci-Fi

By C.E. McGill | May 10, 2023

The 13 Best Book Covers of April

The 13 Best Book Covers of April

A Bouquet of Bright Books for Spring

By Emily Temple | April 27, 2023

Best Reviewed
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  • Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward
  • Sunrise
  • A Tender Age
  • Under the Falls
  • The Responsible Party
  • Depraved: The Story of Dangerous Art
  • A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving: Lessons on Love, Care, and Survival: A Memoir
  • Days of Miracle and Wonder: Paul Simon and the Trials and Triumphs of Graceland
  • Hocus Pocus
  • Are They Dead Yet?: The Art of the Obit

Hideous Shakespeare: On Courting Ugliness in Portraiture

By Lee Durkee | April 17, 2023

Of Muromancy and Bruno Schulz: Uncovering Literary History in Western Ukraine

By Benjamin Balint | April 11, 2023

After a Year Spent Visiting the Sistine Chapel, I Saw Something Sublime

By Jeannie Marshall | April 6, 2023

How Yayoi Kusama Transformed Her Terrors Into Art

How Yayoi Kusama Transformed Her Terrors Into Art

Will Gompertz on the Complex Life and Work of an Iconic Japanese Artist

By Will Gompertz | April 5, 2023

Another World is Possible: On the Universal Language of Trees

Another World is Possible: On the Universal Language of Trees

Katie Holten Calls for the Rewilding of Vocabularies

By Katie Holten | April 4, 2023

“Something Beyond Flatness On Paper.” On Creating the Cover For Carlo Rovelli’s Newest Book

“Something Beyond Flatness On Paper.” On Creating the Cover For Carlo Rovelli’s Newest Book

How Jason Booher’s Uses Color to Create Light

By Jason Booher | March 29, 2023

On the Role of Children’s Books Within the Realm of Social Evolution

On the Role of Children’s Books Within the Realm of Social Evolution

“A child who feels scolded or lectured to is less apt to pay attention.”

By Leonard S. Marcus | March 29, 2023

Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross on How Art Improves Individual and Communal Health

Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross on How Art Improves Individual and Communal Health

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | March 24, 2023

Hitting the Aesthetic Triad While Gazing at Art

Hitting the Aesthetic Triad While Gazing at Art

Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross on the Workings of Neuroaesthetics

By Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross | March 22, 2023

When the Muses Step Out of the Shadows: Reading the Women Who Enabled Greatness

When the Muses Step Out of the Shadows: Reading the Women Who Enabled Greatness

Sophie Haydock Recommends Naomi Wood, Elizabeth Lowry, and More

By Sophie Haydock | March 20, 2023

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