• Design

    Conversations

    Two Cartoonists Sit On a Bench and Talk: An Illustrated Interview

    By Liana Finck and Amy Kurzweil  October 17, 2018
    Design

    Reckoning with What It Means to Be German

    By Nora Krug  October 11, 2018
    Design

    When a Writer Wants You and Only You to Design Their Cover

    By Alison Forner  October 10, 2018
    Essay

    What I Learned From Photographing Great Writers

    By Beowulf Sheehan  October 9, 2018
    Excerpts

    How Abstract Mathematical Logic Can Help Us in Real Life

    By Eugenia Cheng  September 27, 2018
    Design

    Hannah Arendt, Comics, and Me

    By Ken Krimstein  September 25, 2018
    Design

    The 12 Best Book Covers of September

    By Emily Temple  September 24, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Lisa Hanawalt: Drawing Progressive Westerns from the Horse’s Perspective

    By Michelle Delgado  September 18, 2018
    Design

    The Challenges of Creating a Cover for a Forgotten Modernist Classic

    By Roman Muradov  September 18, 2018
    Design

    18 of the World’s Most Striking Libraries, Illustrated

    By Jane Mount  September 11, 2018
    Design

    The 15 Best Book Covers of August 2018

    By Emily Temple  August 31, 2018
    Art

    James Baldwin’s Children’s Book Will Help You See the World with Fresh Eyes

    By Nicholas Boggs  August 24, 2018
    Design

    The 60 Best and Worst International Covers of Lolita

    By Emily Temple  August 20, 2018
    Design

    The Trouble With Designing a Book When Its Author is in Jail

    By Janet Hansen  August 16, 2018
    Design

    When You’re Asked to Design a Cover After Others Have Tried…

    By Colleen Reinhart  August 7, 2018
    Art

    33 Portraits of Flannery O’Connor

    By Emily Temple  August 3, 2018
    Design

    How Rachel Cusk’s Outline Trilogy Got Those Iconic Covers

    By Charlotte Strick  July 31, 2018
    Essay

    Is It Really Possible To Map Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County?

    By Evan Fleischer  July 27, 2018
    Design

    Is This the Biggest Book Cover Trend of The Year?

    By Emily Temple  June 18, 2018
    Feature

    Galaxies Unto Themselves: Lorna Simpson’s Collages of Black Women’s Hair

    By Elizabeth Alexander  June 6, 2018
    Feature

    Literary Classics Retold As Two-Panel Comics

    By John Atkinson  June 5, 2018
    Excerpts

    Fleeing Occupied Raqqa

    By Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple  May 17, 2018
    Conversations

    Celebrating the Art of the Book Cover

    By Literary Hub  May 17, 2018
    Deep Dive

    The Art of the Moving Book Cover

    By Michael Salu  May 16, 2018
    News and Culture

    John Berger Has Some Thoughts About Smoking

    By John Berger  May 3, 2018
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