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Edward Gorey's Illustrated Covers for Literary Classics

Edward Gorey's Illustrated Covers for Literary Classics

Spooky Treatments of Kafka, Dickens, Conrad, and More

By Emily Temple | April 13, 2018

Inside Edward Gorey's Massachusetts Home

Inside Edward Gorey's Massachusetts Home

The Iconic Illustrator Was, Unsurprisingly, a Collector of Art

By Erin Monroe | April 13, 2018

Guess Which Kurt Vonnegut Tattoo is By Far the Most Common?

Guess Which Kurt Vonnegut Tattoo is By Far the Most Common?

The Answer May or May Not Surprise You

By Emily Temple | April 11, 2018

The Complexities of Designing a New Cover for an Old Classic

The Complexities of Designing a New Cover for an Old Classic

Kimberly Glyder on Reimagining Gone With the Wind

By Kimberly Glyder | March 9, 2018

100 Covers of Gabriel García Márquez's <em>One Hundred Years of Solitude</em>

100 Covers of Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude

Iconic Covers, from 1967 to Today

By Emily Temple | March 6, 2018

The Unlikely Pulp Fiction Illustrations of Edward Hopper

The Unlikely Pulp Fiction Illustrations of Edward Hopper

When the Iconic Painter Drew Cowboys for Adventure Magazine

By Daniel Crown | March 5, 2018

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Mapping the World of Jewish Latin American Literature

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Onfim Wuz Here: On the Unlikely Art of a Medieval Russian Boy

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Of All the Anonymous Artists of Antiquity, It Was a Seven-Year-Old Who Signed His Name

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A Brief Visual History of Virginia Woolf's Book Covers

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Decorate Your House (And Arrange Your Books) Like Edith Wharton

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