This morning, literary critic Michelle Dean penned an article for Flavorwire assailing the purpose and usefulness of dust jackets, those glossy outer shells of hardcover books. Not one to judge a book ...

Lauren Ro is interested in baby gear (she’s a new mom) and the ins-and-outs of decorating a home. Prior to the Strategist, she was a writer at Curbed, and before that was Wes Anderson’s assistant. I’m ...

As with fashion and interior design, trends in book cover art come and go, sometimes inexplicably. One day you’re puzzling over how an exploding rose ended up on multiple dust jackets, and the next ...