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The 10 Best Book Covers of October
All Treats, No Tricks
By
Emily Temple
| October 30, 2026
Who Chooses the Poems For the New York City Subway?
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By
James Folta
| October 27, 2026
What Lies Behind a Blank Wall? On the Myriad Hidden Meanings of White Paint
Wendy S. Walters Explores the Aesthetic Origins and Political Implications of a Commonplace Decorative Practice
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A Brief History of Iconic Women Spies in the Comics
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Here is the Cover For
All This Beauty
, a New Anthology of Florida Writing
Edited by Kristen Arnett and P. Scott Cunningham
By
Literary Hub
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The 12 Best Book Covers of September
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Emily Temple
| September 30, 2026
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Emily Temple
| September 1, 2026
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Brittany Allen
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Now Amazon is destroying rare books to train its AI.
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Brittany Allen
| August 17, 2026
This interactive atlas captures more than a thousand literary journeys.
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Brittany Allen
| August 11, 2026
The 13 Best Book Covers of July
Hot and Heavy?
By
Emily Temple
| July 31, 2026
The
Children of Blood and Bone
trailer is here. (But you might want to buy the book instead.)
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Brittany Allen
| July 30, 2026
How the Role of Book Cover Design Has Changed in the Age of Social Media
Or, Judging a Reader by Their Book Cover
By
Madelyn Johnson
| July 24, 2026
The 13 Best Book Covers of June
Good Art, Good Cover
By
Emily Temple
| July 1, 2026
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A Guide to the Blofelds
November 4, 2026
by
Olivia Rutigliano
Crime and the city: Harbin, China
November 4, 2026
by
Paul French
Wole Talabi on the intersection of first contact stories and mysteries
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by
Wole Talabi
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"A vivid, sometimes grisly, sometimes enraging portrait of 19th-century British society ... Probing and excellent."