Left unconsidered, it’s easy for books to look like dressed-up bricks. Online, it’s easier still for a great book cover to vanish in the clamor of everything else vying for attention.

Eighty Years of Book Cover Design seems very much a retort to Penguin, as if to say, 'Hey, we were putting out distinctive books six years before you ever came on the scene'. Looking through this ...

We asked five designers to judge the best book covers of 2022. Their choices highlight the variety of styles and techniques artists use to capture the essence of books and entice you to read them.

I wonder how many instances exist throughout the course of history in which book covers have worked against the potential human value of the books they’re wrapped around. Here then are 12 ...

One of the most powerful passages in The Iliad is in Book 18, when a weeping Greek soldier comes to the tent of Achilles and tells ... is the author of several books, most recently The Wonderful ...