Chelsea Leu is a writer and critic whose work has appeared in The Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic and elsewhere.

What makes you pick up a book you’ve never heard of? Is it the title, the author’s name, or the promise of an intriguing story? More often than not, it’s the cover—a single image that has ...

If you had told my freshman-year self that I would become a published author before even earning my degree, I would’ve never ...

Readers with a keen eye for book cover design are likely to associate uniform jacket schemes primarily with boutique literary publishers—among them Archipelago Books, Fitzcarraldo Editions ...

In the work of artists I admire, all the training and discipline come out in an act of letting go: a splotch of ink, a ...

Bestselling thriller author Rachel Hawkins shares an exclusive first look at her upcoming thriller, 'The Storm.' See the cover and read an excerpt.

Explore the innovative process of crafting a stunning wooden cover for a Yamaha Taurus motorbike, featuring ideas that are truly one-of-a-kind. This project combines the art of woodworking with ...

Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the binding of another book, according to experts at the Cambridge University Library in England.

(Though the artificer previously appeared in Eberron: Rising from the Last War, a setting book detailing a pulp fantasy magitech world that I skipped because it includes halflings who ride ...

Udasin would like "Poisoning the Well" to inform the public of the cover-up and devastation that ... Forever chemicals are the topic of her debut book, "Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals ...

Jim Lampley, the veteran sportscaster turned author, during his book signing and appearance at Warwick’s in La Jolla. (Photo by Gayle Lynn Falkenthal) After working for 50 years as a Hall of ...