• Design

    Book Covers

    The 89 Best Book Covers of 2020

    By Emily Temple  December 2, 2020
    Book Covers

    The 10 Best Book Covers
    of November

    By Emily Temple  November 25, 2020
    Book Covers

    What a Book Cover Can Do

    By Peter Mendelsund and David J. Alworth  November 25, 2020
    Illustrations

    What Does it Take to Illustrate Elie Wiesel’s Books?

    By Literary Hub  November 25, 2020
    Magazine Covers

    Bruce McCall: The Story Behind Eight New Yorker Covers

    By Bruce McCall  November 24, 2020
    Cities

    Gotham, Metropolis, Shanghai, Warsaw: On the Anxieties of Cities

    By Ben Wilson  November 12, 2020
    Architecture

    A People’s History of Bathing

    By Christie Pearson  November 10, 2020
    Book Covers

    The 10 Best Book Covers
    of October

    By Emily Temple  October 29, 2020
    Change Lab

    Kevin Bethune on Realizing Dreams Through Design

    By Change Lab  October 29, 2020
    Architecture

    Inside the Spare and Extravagant Homes of Six Iconic Writers

    By Sam Lubell  October 28, 2020
    Children's Literature

    Recreating Scenes From the 20th Century’s Most Iconic Bedtime Story

    By Kate Bernheimer  October 27, 2020
    The Hub

    Toni Morrison’s gorgeous, book-lined Manhattan loft is up for sale.

    By Corinne Segal  October 20, 2020
    The Hub

    A bookstore that dwells in darkness, literally.

    By Jonny Diamond  October 19, 2020
    The Hub

    Your favorite modern horror movies, reimagined as ’70s mass market paperbacks.

    By Emily Temple  October 13, 2020
    The Hub

    2020 is the year of enormous pink lady faces on book covers.

    By Emily Temple  October 1, 2020
    Book Covers

    The 10 Best Book Covers
    of September

    By Emily Temple  September 29, 2020
    The Hub

    Would you find this bookstore beautiful or terrifying? Or both.

    By Jonny Diamond  September 23, 2020
    Comics

    Climactic Moments in Literature Rescheduled as Zoom Meetings

    By Kate Gavino  September 23, 2020
    The Hub

    What the hell John Boehner? A brief look at political memoir covers.

    By Jonny Diamond  September 22, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Moshe Safdie on the Architecture of Our Lives in Quarantine

    By The Quarantine Tapes  September 22, 2020
    The Hub

    Please enjoy these 25 spooky, cat-heavy covers of We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

    By Emily Temple  September 21, 2020
    Book Covers

    The Unexpected Politics of Book Cover Design

    By Jenny Bhatt  September 8, 2020
    Consumerism

    Do We Have Victorians to Thank for Consumerism?

    By Jennifer Howard  September 2, 2020
    Gardening

    We Have Ancient Greece to Thank For Contemporary Gardens

    By Penelope Hobhouse  August 31, 2020
    Features

    The 13 Best Book Covers
    of August

    By Emily Temple  August 28, 2020
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