Best book covers

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An interview with Shirley Jackson’s son Laurence Jackson Hyman.

Call it goldenrod, call it maize, just please color everything in the world with it.

We leaf through some of the most eye-catching book covers around.

Synopsis Expand/Collapse Synopsis Sarah McCarry's "Blue is a Darkness Weakened by Light" is about a lonely young woman, recently moved to the big city, who is looking for love. What she finds is a friend and confidante who is much older and wiser than she. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Levente Szabó's "Great Books Project" is a series of redesigns for some of literature's classic works. It was entirely made in Photoshop, and the letters are all handwritten.

These days, the screen is king. So it’s a (delightful) surprise when designer Jason Booher says, with zero hesitation, that “being a book cover designer is possibly the best job in the world.” Booher is the art director of Blue Rider Press, one of Penguin Book’s imprints, and the mind behind many of

From short story collections of Indonesian cities and folklore to queer poetry collections and the best Indonesian novels, these are must-read Indonesian books.

It’s October, which means everything is now officially just a little bit spookier—and I’m not only talking about your Twitter handles. To celebrate the season, please enjoy this collect…

Bibliophiles and retro design fans will love the Pelican Project, an online time capsule of book covers from the (now defunct) educational arm of Penguin books