• Design

    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
    Badass Women

    Finding the Woman Who Designed the Creature from the Black Lagoon

    By Literary Disco  March 25, 2019
    Excerpts

    Samuel Beckett, Thrower of Shade

    By Frederic Pajak  March 18, 2019
    Feature

    The Oldest American Picture Book Still in Print is Obviously About Cats

    By Emily Temple  March 11, 2019
    Monsters

    A Graphic Look at Goya, Original Comic Book Artist

    By El Torres  March 4, 2019
    Design

    The 16 Best Book Covers of February

    By Emily Temple  February 28, 2019
    Design

    Writing This Book Felt Like Trying to Make Visual Art

    By Sarah M. Broom  February 25, 2019
    Design

    Resisting the Obvious Design for a Book Cover

    By Alison Forner  February 25, 2019
    Design

    Said the Publisher to the Writer: ‘Rewrite Kafka, But Better.’

    By Literary Hub  February 1, 2019
    The Natural World

    How We Use Stunning Visuals to Tell the Stories of Science

    By Felice C. Frankel  January 31, 2019
    Design

    How Learning to Draw Can Help a Writer to See

    By Kiley Bense  January 30, 2019
    Art

    In Search of the Surreal at the Leonora Carrington Museum

    By Ruby Brunton  January 29, 2019
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