Some maxims hold. You can’t judge a book by its cover. Especially a novel by a female author. Women’s literature has moved beyond the pale — all matter of pinks from pale to insistent — to ...

Over the past decade, a growing movement to restrict access to books in public schools and libraries has spread across the country. Every year, there are hundreds of attempts to challenge or ban books ...

Alex Wermer-Colan received funding from the Mellon Foundation. Alex Wermer-Colan is the Managing Editor of the Programming Historian in English and the Executive Director of Philly Community Wireless.

Mark Sinclair picks his ten favourite book covers of the year, chosen for their “strong, characterful, challenging and exciting” design Has it ever been easier to design a book cover? As with most ...

The idiom “never judge a book by its cover” warns against evaluating something purely by the way it looks. And yet book covers are designed to give readers an idea of the content, to make them want to ...