Book covers have always sold – or oversold – their contents. Like all art, book design is a sign of the times: of consumer whims and cultural advances.

Though the recipient of over 60 national and global awards for journalism, Sainath has also declined several — including the Padma Bhushan in 2009 — as he believes “journalists should never accept ...

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I’ve been a book designer since the 1990s, working with some of Australia’s and the United Kingdom’s leading publishers. These days, I design book covers for Giramondo Publishing.

Jenny Grigg is the talented book designer behind The Luminaries and Gerald Murnane’s last book. We asked her to explain how covers communicate – and how they can fall short.

E arlier in the summer, the original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was sold for a record £1.5m.The book is more than 25 years old, but the price the watercolour ...

130 years after ‘The Yellow Book’ changed book cover design, one of the most notable book covers to grab the attention of readers was for Rebecca F. Kuang’s bestseller, ‘Yellowface’.

She’d been tasked with designing the book covers for the English translations of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six-part autobiographical novel, My Struggle—and she’d landed on a concept to tie the ...

P. Sainath reveals stories of unsung heroes of India's Freedom Struggle. He interviewed freedom fighters for 20 yrs & compiled them in a book. Former West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi ...

As of Tuesday, however, the book remains available for pre-sale with the same controversial cover art. I’m broken. And I PRAY you will share my words so there can be more positivity here.

History needs to be retold for each generation as new evidence or knowledge comes up, but rewriting should not involve inventing history, author and columnist P. Sainath, who is also a former ...