This is the third time that Cambridge writer and artist Peter Mendelsund has published two books within a few weeks of each ...

Weekly book lists of exciting new releases, bestsellers, classics, and more. The lists are curated by the editors of Kirkus Reviews.

Elemental: Crafting Books from Nature” is an ode to the physical book, exploring thousands of years of practical knowledge ...

Go ahead, judge that book by its cover. Book cover designers picked the best book covers of 2025 and told us what makes them so great. Skip to main content. A Trusted Friend in a Complicated World.

Stevens’s new book—in which he delivers exactly what the title promises across 200-plus fake vintage book covers—is out today. And it works delightfully. Subscribe to the Design newsletter.

MANILA, Philippines — Do not judge a book by its cover, you are often told. Well, this is true when it comes to judging people you are meeting for the first time. But when it comes to books ...

Book covers have always sold – or oversold – their contents. Like all art, book design is a sign of the times: of consumer whims and cultural advances.

„I consider this book (really a pamphlet) a gold mine. Flavius Josephus wrote under so many other pen names, one can only know about christiantiy by reading more than a book or two, or going beyond ...

I’ve been a book designer since the 1990s, working with some of Australia’s and the United Kingdom’s leading publishers. These days, I design book covers for Giramondo Publishing.

The cover of Chanel Catwalk, left, and Melania, right.. Amazon . That’s because the memoir bears striking similarities to Chanel Catwalk, a 2020 book by the French author Patrick Mauriès.The ...

Jenny Grigg is the talented book designer behind The Luminaries and Gerald Murnane’s last book. We asked her to explain how covers communicate – and how they can fall short.