• Design

    Illustrations

    Alan Lee on Illustrating J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings

    By Alan Lee  April 20, 2022
    Book Design

    The Unique Challenge of Designing a Book by Incarcerated Writers

    By Caits Meissner and Melissa Joskow  April 5, 2022
    Architecture

    On Building Cities for Women and the Early Days of Feminist Architecture

    By Katie Lloyd Thomas and Karen Burns  March 31, 2022
    Infographics

    Humpback Whales Are Recovering! And Other Surprising Pieces of Good News

    By David McCandless  March 30, 2022
    Book Covers

    The 12 Best Book Covers of March

    By Jessie Gaynor  March 29, 2022
    The Hub

    Exclusive cover reveal: Talia Lakshmi Kolluri’s What We Fed to the Manticore.

    By Literary Hub  March 28, 2022
    Book Covers

    The Story Behind Jonathan Franzen’s New Backlist Book Cover Redesigns

    By Emily Temple  March 17, 2022
    The Hub

    A new map of the London Underground highlights the women who shaped the city.

    By Corinne Segal  March 9, 2022
    The Hub

    Exclusive cover reveal: Laura Warrell’s Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm.

    By Literary Hub  March 3, 2022
    Book Covers

    The 10 Best Book Covers of February

    By Jessie Gaynor  February 28, 2022
    The Hub

    Look at (but don’t touch) these beautiful Russian avant-garde art books.

    By Jonny Diamond  February 22, 2022
    The Hub

    Here is Ottessa Moshfegh walking in a fashion show.

    By Jessie Gaynor  February 15, 2022
    Travel

    Take a look at this gorgeous, see-through “book house.”

    By Walker Caplan  February 10, 2022
    The Hub

    Medieval manuscripts as coloring books? Yes please.

    By Jonny Diamond  February 8, 2022
    Illustrations

    Some Helpful Metaphors for Writing a Novel, Illustrated

    By Swan Huntley  February 3, 2022
    Book Covers

    The 12 Best Book Covers
    of January

    By Emily Temple  January 28, 2022
    Architecture

    The Parkmaker and the Formgiver: On the Creative Friendship That Reshaped the American Streetscape 

    By Hugh Howard  January 26, 2022
    Author Photos

    Twelve Writers Share the Stories Behind Their Author Photos

    By Rachel Krantz  January 21, 2022
    Archives

    The Man Who Quietly Built a Massive Archive of Artists’ Deaths

    By Jim Moske  January 18, 2022
    Book Covers

    59 Years of Book Covers for The Bell Jar from All Over the World

    By Emily Temple  January 14, 2022
    Comics

    The Subversive Spider-Man: How Spidey Broke the Superhero Mold

    By Ralph Macchio  January 3, 2022
    Book Covers

    The 8 Best Book Covers of December

    By Emily Temple  December 23, 2021
    Graphic Novels

    “It Can Be a Wild Story, but Everything Has to Feel Real.” A Conversation With Graphic Novelist Rutu Modan

    By Literary Hub  December 22, 2021
    Cartoons

    On New Yorker Cartoonist Ed Koren’s Sketches for the End Times

    By Howard Norman  December 13, 2021
    Graphic Novels

    Keum Suk Gendry-Kim on the Symbolism of Trees and the Power of Black and White Illustration

    By Alexander Chee  December 13, 2021
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