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Reckoning with What It Means to Be German

Reckoning with What It Means to Be German

Nora Krug on the Complexity of Homesickness and Heimat

By Nora Krug | October 11, 2018

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

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

Alison Forner on Creating the Cover for Lisa Brennan-Jobs' Small Fry

By Alison Forner | October 10, 2018

What I Learned From Photographing Great Writers

What I Learned From Photographing Great Writers

Beowulf Sheehan on His Life in Pictures

By Beowulf Sheehan | October 9, 2018

How Abstract Mathematical Logic Can Help Us in Real Life

How Abstract Mathematical Logic Can Help Us in Real Life

On Building Better Frameworks to Consider Disagreement

By Eugenia Cheng | September 27, 2018

Hannah Arendt, Comics, and Me

Hannah Arendt, Comics, and Me

How a New Yorker Cartoonist Wrestled with One of the Greatest Minds of All Time

By Ken Krimstein | September 25, 2018

The 12 Best Book Covers of September

The 12 Best Book Covers of September

In Which We Happily Judge Covers By Their Covers

By Emily Temple | September 24, 2018

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

By Michelle Delgado | September 18, 2018

The Challenges of Creating a Cover for a Forgotten Modernist Classic

By Roman Muradov | September 18, 2018

18 of the World's Most Striking Libraries, Illustrated

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

33 Portraits of Flannery O'Connor

33 Portraits of Flannery O'Connor

Because Good Fan Art is Hard to Find

By Emily Temple | August 3, 2018

How Rachel Cusk's <em>Outline</em> Trilogy Got Those Iconic Covers

How Rachel Cusk's Outline Trilogy Got Those Iconic Covers

Charlotte Strick on Designing Outline, Transit, and Kudos

By Charlotte Strick | July 31, 2018

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