From fashion runways to the covers of books, a trendy "naive" aesthetic is ditching polished perfection for the deliberate ...

Penguin has been publishing high-quality paperbacks of classic science fiction since the late 1950s. As times change, you can see how the book covers move from stately red and black (above) to crazed ...

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Take a genteel painting, maybe featuring a swooning woman. Add iridescent neon type for a shock to the system. And thank (or blame) Ottessa Moshfegh for getting there early. Clockwise from top left: ...

Nothing is more terrifying, more mentally scarring, than the giant-head book cover. They loom off the cardstock, their huge eyes bugging out. Nothing inside the pages could be this horrifying. Here ...

Neal Shusterman’s more than 50-book literary resume is filled with accolades, among them a National Book Award (Challenger Deep), a Printz Honor (Scythe), a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award (The Schwa Was ...

At the height of his modeling career in the ’80s, Fabio Lanzoni, better known simply as Fabio, says he was shooting up to 10 romance book covers a day. With his long, blonde hair flowing, his shirt ...

A fireproof edition of Margaret Atwood's prescient and often-banned book "The Handmaids Tale." It is one of the greatest works of speculative fiction. Speculative fiction, often referred to as spec ...

We’re all told that we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but most of us do! In fact, judging a book by its cover might not be such a bad thing. A cover can help readers get a sense of what a book ...