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    The 10 Best Book Covers of July

    By Emily Temple  July 24, 2019
    The Hub

    All your favorite songs reimagined as vintage book covers. (You’re welcome.)

    By Emily Temple  July 19, 2019
    Eye Candy

    The 12 Best Book Covers of June

    By Emily Temple  June 27, 2019
    Walking

    How Do We Reclaim American Cities for People Who Walk?

    By Antonia Malchik  June 4, 2019
    Design

    The 13 Best Book Covers of May

    By Emily Temple  May 31, 2019
    Graphic Novels

    What Gets Lost (and Found) in Translating Prose to Comics

    By Tobias Carroll  May 29, 2019
    graphic biography

    SAMO: The Origins of Jean-Michel Basquiat

    By Paolo Parisi  May 28, 2019
    Graphic Novels

    Gabrielle Bellot on the Dreamy, Queer Beauty of On a Sunbeam

    By Gabrielle Bellot  May 28, 2019
    Book Covers

    50 Raymond Carver Covers from Around the World

    By Emily Temple  May 24, 2019
    The Hub

    EXCLUSIVE COVER REVEAL: Paul Lisicky’s forthcoming memoir, Later.

    By Emily Firetog  May 20, 2019
    The Hub

    May we suggest not paying $99 for “authentic decorative books”?

    By Jessie Gaynor  May 16, 2019
    Author Photos

    Author Photos: A Taxonomy

    By Emily Temple  May 10, 2019
    Graphic Novels

    Illustrating the Visual Illusions of Walter Benjamin’s Mind

    By Frances Cannon  May 9, 2019
    Author Photos

    Taking an Author’s Photo Is Like Going on a First Date

    By Nina Subin  May 6, 2019
    Behind the Book Cover

    How to Use Red, White, and Blue on a Book Cover (Without Going Too Patriotic)

    By Nicole Caputo  May 6, 2019
    Book News

    These Are the Best University Press Book Designs of 2018

    By Emily Temple  May 1, 2019
    Design

    The 16 Best Book Covers of April

    By Emily Temple  April 30, 2019
    News and Culture

    25 of the Best Covers for Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

    By Emily Temple  April 15, 2019
    News and Culture

    Read from the Graphic Novelization of
    The Handmaid’s Tale

    By Renee Nault  April 5, 2019
    Children's Lit

    What Are the Elements of a Good Children’s Poem?

    By Penelope Lively  April 5, 2019
    Feature

    The Unused Alternative Covers Behind
    5 Modern Literary Classics

    By Literary Hub  April 3, 2019
    Graphic Novels

    Angela Davis on Protest, 1968, and Her Old Teacher, Herbert Marcuse

    By Literary Hub  April 3, 2019
    Feature

    The 50 Best Slaughterhouse-Five Covers from Around the World

    By Emily Temple  March 29, 2019
    Design

    The 17 Best Book Covers of March

    By Emily Temple  March 27, 2019
    Feature

    How T Kira Madden’s Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls Got Its Glitter

    By Tree Abraham  March 25, 2019
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