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The 10 Best Book Covers <br>of January

The 10 Best Book Covers
of January

Are We There Yet?

By Emily Temple | January 28, 2021

On the Power of Afrofuturism in the 21st Century

On the Power of Afrofuturism in the 21st Century

Tim Fielder Details the Legacies of Radical Black Imaginaries

By Tim Fielder | January 21, 2021

Check out these vintage pulp covers for classic Patricia Highsmith novels.

Check out these vintage pulp covers for classic Patricia Highsmith novels.

By Emily Temple | January 19, 2021

If you miss visiting the library, try the Internet Archive's new virtual browsing tool.

If you miss visiting the library, try the Internet Archive's new virtual browsing tool.

By Walker Caplan | January 11, 2021

Is the next book cover trend . . . rainbows?

Is the next book cover trend . . . rainbows?

By Emily Temple | January 8, 2021

Sometimes You Just Need a Math Prodigy to Explain the Quotidian Uses of the Fourth Dimension

Sometimes You Just Need a Math Prodigy to Explain the Quotidian Uses of the Fourth Dimension

Milo Beckman On Visual Analogies, Dimensionality, and
How We Organize Ourselves

By Milo Beckman | January 8, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Rest of Our Lives
  • Call Me Ishmaelle
  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
  • Lost Lambs
  • Winter: The Story of a Season
  • The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
  • Departure(s)
  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China
  • The Flower Bearers
  • Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood

Christopher Hitchens's backlist is getting a cool new redesign.

By Emily Temple | December 17, 2020

Elle Hearns on Leading a Movement for Black Trans Lives

By Change Lab | December 17, 2020

Who wore it better? US book covers vs. their UK counterparts.

By Emily Temple | December 15, 2020

How to Give Octavia Butler the Covers She Deserves

How to Give Octavia Butler the Covers She Deserves

Repackaging the Patternist Series for the Mother of Afrofuturism

By Elizabeth Connor | December 15, 2020

On the Glory Days of the Great <br>American Trade Paperback

On the Glory Days of the Great
American Trade Paperback

Gerald Howard on the Start of an Era

By Gerald Howard | December 15, 2020

Helen Drutt English on the Essentialness of <br>Creating by Hand

Helen Drutt English on the Essentialness of
Creating by Hand

In Conversation with Naomi Shihab Nye on The Quarantine Tapes

By The Quarantine Tapes | December 15, 2020

Why Ernest Hemingway Makes a Great Subject for <br>Comic Book Artists

Why Ernest Hemingway Makes a Great Subject for
Comic Book Artists

Robert K. Elder on the Protean Appearances of the
Great American Writer

By Robert K. Elder | December 14, 2020

Memorializing History's Dark Corners With Absurdity

Memorializing History's Dark Corners With Absurdity

Keith Lowe Visits Lithuania's Grutas Park

By Keith Lowe | December 10, 2020

The Private Lives of Shuttered Stores: On Abandoned Interiors

The Private Lives of Shuttered Stores: On Abandoned Interiors

Mark Hage Recounts the Origins of His Latest Book

By Mark Hage | December 10, 2020

Exclusive cover reveal: William Evans and Omar Holmon's <em>Black Nerd Problems</em>.

Exclusive cover reveal: William Evans and Omar Holmon's Black Nerd Problems.

By Rasheeda Saka | December 9, 2020

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