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    Book Covers

    The 10 Best Book Covers
    of January

    By Emily Temple  January 31, 2020
    Studio Sessions

    Belletrist Studio Sessions:
    Mira Jacob on Drawing the America She Loves

    By Literary Hub  January 28, 2020
    Picasso

    Searching for Guernica: A Night at the Museum with Picasso

    By Christophe Ono-dit-Biot and Adel Abdessemed  January 27, 2020
    Nigerian Culture

    Wole Soyinka on Yoruba Weddings, Nigerian Movies, and Making Traditions New

    By Wole Soyinka  January 23, 2020
    Studio Sessions

    How a Book Cover Gets Made: Nicole Caputo on Belletrist’s Studio Sessions

    By Literary Hub  January 21, 2020
    Minimalism

    On Contemporary Minimalism’s Maximal Lies

    By Andru Okun  January 17, 2020
    Jane Austen

    The Obscure Editions of Jane Austen Novels That Made Her Internationally Known

    By Janine Barchas  January 15, 2020
    Studio Sessions

    Introducing Belletrist’s Studio Sessions, Episode One: Illustrator Cecilia Ruiz

    By Literary Hub  January 14, 2020
    Architecture

    Paul Rudolph’s Strange Vision of a Cross-Manhattan Expressway (and Other Unfinished Projects)

    By Robert Bruegmann  January 10, 2020
    The Hub

    EXCLUSIVE COVER REVEAL: Jill Bialosky’s August poetry collection, Asylum, has a cover.

    By Jonny Diamond  January 7, 2020
    Comics

    Lynda Barry: A Comic Exercise in Building Character

    By Lynda Barry  December 19, 2019
    Jane Austen

    Tight Breeches and Loose Gowns: Going Deep on the Fashion of Jane Austen

    By Hilary Davidson  December 10, 2019
    Secrets of the Book Designer

    Luke Bird on Channeling the 1980s for the Cover of
    The Prettiest Star

    By Luke Bird  December 9, 2019
    Secrets of the Book Designer

    Sometimes You Have to Build the Book Cover in Your Living Room

    By Nicole Caputo  November 26, 2019
    The Best of 2019

    The 78 Best Book Covers of 2019

    By Emily Temple  November 25, 2019
    Book Covers

    The 10 Best Book Covers of November

    By Emily Temple  November 22, 2019
    American History

    Piecing Together the Lives
    of Enslaved Americans

    By Rachel May  November 21, 2019
    Walking

    An Ode to Women Who Walk,
    From Virginia Woolf to Greta Gerwig

    By Lizzy Stewart  November 21, 2019
    Book Covers

    The 10 Best Book Covers
    of October

    By Emily Temple  October 30, 2019
    News and Culture

    A Household of Minor Things:
    The Collections of Robert Duncan and Jess

    By Tara McDowell  October 15, 2019
    American History

    The Midcentury Battle to Save America’s Cities from Crisis

    By Lizabeth Cohen  October 8, 2019
    Literary History

    Why We Feel So Compelled to Make Maps of Fictional Worlds

    By Lev Grossman  October 2, 2019
    The Hub

    Head over to The Believer for their new interactive comic feature by artist Matt Huynh.

    By Jonny Diamond  October 1, 2019
    Book Covers

    The 11 Best Book Covers of September

    By Emily Temple  September 27, 2019
    Books

    A Brief History of Personalized Bookplates

    By Princeton Architectural Press   September 27, 2019
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