Models embracing in “the clinch” are long gone, replaced by the vector couple.

All Fours” by Miranda July Last summer, I was surrounded by books and bookish people for the entire season, and it felt like ...

Peruse enough bookstores – or just stroll past their window displays – and you’ll certainly have encountered the design trends adorning our best (and bestselling) literature. Illustrations abound: ...

The cover of author Tracy A. Daigrepont's book “Relentless” looks like a painting. And that's because it was painted by artist Chastity Sayer Smith.

A Pacific Beach elementary school has served as inspiration for author Kristi Hong’s first romance novel, “The Teacher’s ...

It was opening day at Cupid’s Bookshop, where a never-ending line of visitors, including Mayor Cherelle Parker, perused ...

In “The Teacher’s Match,” a new romance novel by Kristi Hong, two teachers meet, feel a spark, and attempt a platonic friendship as coworkers while working at a Mandarin-immersion school in a ...

The redesign is, frankly, ugly, and not even ugly in a good way. To complain about the ugliness of the new Ferrante cover is to acknowledge that the old Europa Editions were also ugly — but those were ...

Arguably, some of the best steamy romance novels are the ones that take their time building slow-burn tension—and aren’t ...

Devangana Dash is a book designer, art director and educator, and the most recent winner of the Oxford Bookstore Book Cover ...