In Sept. 1857, scores of California-bound emigrants -- mostly from Arkansas -- were murdered in the remote high desert of ...

Pleasantly surprised on the subway, an invisible helper appears and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s ...

Good book cover design is about making promises to the reader: their journey, the world they're about to enter, and the emotions they will have. You've got 3 seconds. That's all. There are only three ...

Inspiration for the “Mohawk” book cover: On a September day in 1955, New York Central 4-8-2 No. 3005 comes charging through ...

Roitfeld secures none other than Angelina Jolie as the cover star for CR Fashion Book Issue #24 for the Fall/Winter 2024 ...

Barbara Moscato Brown Library announced a creative and whimsical contest, inviting book lovers of all ages to showcase their ...

Don't judge "Don't judge a book by its cover" by its cover. I mean that in the specific and general senses, as a book cover can answer many questions about what's going on in there: What feeling does ...

For our 50th anniversary, a sample of cover art over the last half-century, from flashes of brilliance to cringey misfires.

Wright Thompson travels back to his native Mississippi to examine the place where Emmett Till was murdered for his new book ...

Salvador Dali hires a young artist with a striking similarity to the goddess Proserpina to model for him in a mystical garden ...

In 1860, the English author Mary Ann Evans, using the pen name George Eliot, wrote in her book “The Mill on the Floss” that ...