Art director Peter Dyer created the cover for this year’s Booker Prize winner, drawing inspiration from “Sri Lankan devil masks” known as Raksha masks. Shehan Karunatilaka is the second Sri Lankan ...

For a band with such an unmistakable style—eyeliner, red lipstick, black garb, tousled hair—the Cure, in frontman Robert Smith’s telling, has long resisted iconography. “I don’t want to be known for ...

The often subversive story of book cover design is retold in a new title from Ten Speed Press, which celebrates and explores the many methods publishers have used to grab readers’ attention The book, ...

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