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18 of the World's Most Striking Libraries, Illustrated

18 of the World's Most Striking Libraries, Illustrated

From Mexico to Norway, India, and the United States

By Jane Mount | September 11, 2018

The 15 Best Book Covers of August 2018

The 15 Best Book Covers of August 2018

The Bold, the Beautiful, and the Bonkers

By Emily Temple | August 31, 2018

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

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

On Reissuing the Quietly Radical Little Man, Little Man

By Nicholas Boggs | August 24, 2018

The 60 Best and Worst International Covers of <em>Lolita</em>

The 60 Best and Worst International Covers of Lolita

On the 60th Anniversary of its American Publication

By Emily Temple | August 20, 2018

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

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

Janet Hansen on Creating the Cover for Nico Walker's Cherry

By Janet Hansen | August 16, 2018

When You're Asked to Design a Cover After Others Have Tried...

When You're Asked to Design a Cover After Others Have Tried...

Colleen Reinhart on the Paperback Reissue of Courtney Maum's Touch

By Colleen Reinhart | August 7, 2018

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33 Portraits of Flannery O'Connor

By Emily Temple | August 3, 2018

How Rachel Cusk's Outline Trilogy Got Those Iconic Covers

By Charlotte Strick | July 31, 2018

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

By Evan Fleischer | July 27, 2018

Is This the Biggest Book Cover Trend of The Year?

Is This the Biggest Book Cover Trend of The Year?

All the Cool Books are Wearing It

By Emily Temple | June 18, 2018

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

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

"Black Women are the Shimmering Surface and the Power Beneath"

By Elizabeth Alexander | June 6, 2018

Literary Classics Retold As Two-Panel Comics

Literary Classics Retold As Two-Panel Comics

Turns Out You Can Summarize Proust's In Search of Lost Time with Two Pictures

By John Atkinson | June 5, 2018

Fleeing Occupied Raqqa

Fleeing Occupied Raqqa

Memories Always Hit You Hardest When You’re Leaving,
and the Good Ones are the Most Painful of All

By Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple | May 17, 2018

Celebrating the Art of the Book Cover

Celebrating the Art of the Book Cover

Peter Mendelsund, Jaya Miceli, Oliver Munday, Helen Yentus, and 100 Beautiful Books

By Literary Hub | May 17, 2018

The Art of the Moving Book Cover

The Art of the Moving Book Cover

Michael Salu on Building a Dynamic Visual Identity for Books Online

By Michael Salu | May 16, 2018

John Berger Has Some Thoughts About Smoking

John Berger Has Some Thoughts About Smoking

From Smoke, with Illustrations by Selçuk Demirel

By John Berger | May 3, 2018

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