The following year we got Penguin by Design, an illustrated history of 70 years of Penguin covers, and then, in 2007, Seven Hundred Penguins, a two-inch-thick collection of the best covers, shown ...

Books Times Readers Are Excited About: Thrillers, literary fiction, history, memoirs and more: Here are the books you’ve saved most to your summer reading lists.

The year's best covers, as chosen by the art director of The New York Times Book Review. However ornamental book jackets may be, they are also entry points to both the good and bad ideas that ...

We are creating a new centre for design to decentralise the field as it stands now. A Golden Map by Amar Salman, 1991. Designer: Mohieddin Ellabbad; Publisher: Arab Falcon. Arabic Book Cover Archive ...

We reflect on Penguin Books’ formidable design history on its 90th birthday, and reveal the winners of its annual Cover Design Award This year, Penguin Books turns 90. Founded on the simple premise of ...

Back Bay Books. The patient zero of flat women might be Bernadette, the heroine and cover star of Where’d You Go, Bernadette, by Maria Semple, from 2012. On that cover, a woman’s face floats ...

Getting to design your own book cover is the sort of ultimately maddening power that probably shouldn’t be entrusted to vain mortals. It’s a little like getting to choose your own face.