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The 15 Best Book Covers of January

The 15 Best Book Covers of January

2019's First Crop of Shiny New Books

By Emily Temple | January 28, 2019

Some Hilarious Illustrations from America's First Bestselling Diet Book

Some Hilarious Illustrations from America's First Bestselling Diet Book

Lulu Hunt Peters Invented Calorie Counting and Let her Nephew Draw the Pictures

By Emily Temple | January 15, 2019

How to Design a Book Cover... Backwards?

How to Design a Book Cover... Backwards?

Chloe Scheffe on Creating the Cover for Jenny Hval's Paradise Rot

By Chloe Scheffe | January 8, 2019

The 75 Best Book Covers of 2018

The 75 Best Book Covers of 2018

According to Book Cover Designers

By Emily Temple | December 29, 2018

William Kentridge's Provisional Memory, Provisional Words

William Kentridge's Provisional Memory, Provisional Words

15 Thoughts from the Master Animator

By William Kentridge | December 14, 2018

The Joys of Designing a Debut Writer's Book

The Joys of Designing a Debut Writer's Book

Sarahmay Wilkinson on Creating the Cover for Half Gods

By Sarahmay Wilkinson | December 10, 2018

Best Reviewed
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  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
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Who Wore It Best? US Book Covers vs. UK Book Covers for 2018

By Emily Temple | December 7, 2018

How Would You Map the Personality of a Great City?

By Adam Dant | December 5, 2018

The 15 Best Book Covers of November

By Emily Temple | November 26, 2018

32 Beautiful Early Dust Jackets for Iconic Books

32 Beautiful Early Dust Jackets for Iconic Books

They Just Don't Make Covers Like They Used To

By Emily Temple | November 21, 2018

Cover Reveal: Pola Oloixarac’s Forthcoming Novel is Watching You

Cover Reveal: Pola Oloixarac’s Forthcoming Novel is Watching You

Dark Constellations Imagines a Dystopia That Might Already Be Here

By Literary Hub | November 20, 2018

Remembering Stan Lee, and the World He Created

Remembering Stan Lee, and the World He Created

Rion Amilcar Scott, Tyler Malone, and Nikesh Shukla on the Miracle of Marvel

By Literary Hub | November 14, 2018

Spider-Man in the UK: The Hero I Needed

Spider-Man in the UK: The Hero I Needed

Nikesh Shukla on the Legacy of Stan Lee

By Nikesh Shukla | November 14, 2018

Stan Lee, the Would-Be Novelist Who Created Worlds

Stan Lee, the Would-Be Novelist Who Created Worlds

One of the Great American Storytellers

By Tyler Malone | November 14, 2018

How to Capture Alternating Plot Lines on a Book Cover

How to Capture Alternating Plot Lines on a Book Cover

Donna Cheng on Designing for Carola Lovering's Tell Me Lies

By Donna Cheng | November 5, 2018

The 16 Best Book Covers of October

The 16 Best Book Covers of October

In Which We Happily Judge Covers By Their Covers

By Emily Temple | November 2, 2018

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