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

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

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

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Literary Classics Retold As Two-Panel Comics

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Fleeing Occupied Raqqa

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Celebrating the Art of the Book Cover

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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

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50 Pulp Cover Treatments of Classic Works of Literature

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Guns, Broads, Beefcake, Literariness

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