Literary Hub
Literary Hub
  • Craft and Criticism
    • Literary Criticism
    • Craft and Advice
    • In Conversation
    • On Translation
  • Fiction and Poetry
    • Short Story
    • From the Novel
    • Poem
  • News and Culture
    • History
    • Science
    • Politics
    • Biography
    • Memoir
    • Food
    • Technology
    • Bookstores and Libraries
    • Film and TV
    • Travel
    • Music
    • Art and Photography
    • The Hub
    • Style
    • Design
    • Sports
  • BUY A HAT
  • Lit Hub Radio
    • The Lit Hub Podcast
    • Awakeners
    • Fiction/Non/Fiction
    • The Critic and Her Publics
    • Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
    • Memoir Nation
    • Beyond the Page
    • First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
    • Thresholds
    • The Cosmic Library
    • Culture Schlock
  • Reading Lists
    • The Best of the Decade
  • Book Marks
    • Best Reviewed Books
  • CrimeReads
    • True Crime
    • The Daily Thrill
  • Log In
  • Craft and Criticism
  • Fiction and Poetry
  • News and Culture
  • Lit Hub Radio
  • Reading Lists
  • Book Marks
  • CrimeReads
  • Log In
Designing Your Grandfather's Book (When He's James Thurber)

Designing Your Grandfather's Book (When He's James Thurber)

Sara T. Sauers on Honoring the Family Aesthetic

By Sara T. Sauers | August 30, 2019

The 12 Best Book Covers<br> of August

The 12 Best Book Covers
of August

Or, Fun with Text and Cutouts

By Emily Temple | August 29, 2019

Rachel Cusk's house is an austere, experimental, hyper-modern masterpiece. (Shocking, right?)

Rachel Cusk's house is an austere, experimental, hyper-modern masterpiece. (Shocking, right?)

By Emily Temple | August 28, 2019

Here's Kara Walker’s Toni Morrison tribute on the cover of the <em>New Yorker</em>.

Here's Kara Walker’s Toni Morrison tribute on the cover of the New Yorker.

By Emily Temple | August 8, 2019

75 Covers of Toni Morrison's <em>Beloved</em> From Around the World

75 Covers of Toni Morrison's Beloved From Around the World

In Honor of the Novel's 30th Anniversary

By Emily Temple | August 6, 2019

If You Haven't Yet Had Time to Read <em>Moby-Dick</em> Here's a Pop-Up Book

If You Haven't Yet Had Time to Read Moby-Dick Here's a Pop-Up Book

Celebrate Herman Melville's 200th Birthday With Some Cool Whales

By Literary Hub | August 1, 2019

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

The Perils of Designing a Cover for a Novel You Truly Love

By Oliver Munday | July 31, 2019

The 10 Best Book Covers of July

By Emily Temple | July 24, 2019

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

By Emily Temple | July 19, 2019

The 12 Best Book Covers of June

The 12 Best Book Covers of June

Not a Beach in Sight

By Emily Temple | June 27, 2019

How Do We Reclaim American Cities for People Who Walk?

How Do We Reclaim American Cities for People Who Walk?

Antonia Malchik Runs Out of Sidewalk Somewhere in Denver

By Antonia Malchik | June 4, 2019

The 13 Best Book Covers of May

The 13 Best Book Covers of May

Are Those Stars in Your Eyes?

By Emily Temple | May 31, 2019

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

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

Tobias Carroll on the Generative Power of Literary Adaptation

By Tobias Carroll | May 29, 2019

SAMO: The Origins of Jean-Michel Basquiat

SAMO: The Origins of Jean-Michel Basquiat

From Paolo Parisi's Graphic Biography of a New York Legend

By Paolo Parisi | May 28, 2019

Gabrielle Bellot on the Dreamy, Queer Beauty of <em>On a Sunbeam</em>

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

The Moody, Women-Centered Graphic Novel Space Opera
We Need Right Now

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 28, 2019

50 Raymond Carver Covers from Around the World

50 Raymond Carver Covers from Around the World

What We Talk About When We Talk About Book Covers

By Emily Temple | May 24, 2019

« First‹ Previous212223242526272829Next ›Last »
Page 25 of 35
    • 10 New Books Coming Out This WeekFebruary 2, 2026 by CrimeReads
    • Crime and the City: OsakaFebruary 2, 2026 by Paul French
    • The Killer Women: How a Podcast Built a Community from IsolationFebruary 2, 2026 by Danielle Girard
    • The Rest of Our Lives
    • The Best Reviewed Books of the Month
    • "Poignant Tender The final line of em The Rest of Our Lives em is by…"
  • Literary Hub

    Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature


    Masthead

    About

    Sign Up For Our Newsletters

    How to Pitch Lit Hub

    Advertisers: Contact Us

    Privacy Policy

    Support Lit Hub - Become A Member