Madeline Miller spent over a decade writing The Song of Achilles – a fantasy romance retelling of Homer’s epic poem The Iliad ...

There are the incunabula — very early books, printed before 1500 — and, in a class by itself, the Kelmscott Chaucer, after the Gutenberg Bible probably the most famous feat of book printing ever.

We asked: “What book would you describe as beautiful?” Barbara Brown Taylor: Henri Nouwen required Florida Scott-Maxwell’s The Measure of My Days for his course on aging at Yale Divinity School in the ...

The summer's most beautiful books From a work on cartoon advertising to a tome on the history of design, a look at the season's best art hardcovers. By Nicole Torres.

A new book showcasing beautiful midcentury cover art, “The Illustrated Dust Jacket, 1920-1970,” contains dozens of outstanding hand-drawn or painted covers.

Big And Beautiful: Best Gift Books of 2009 Reviewer John McAlley selects gems from the worlds of fine art, fashion, photography, science, lit-crit and cartoons. These luxe volumes will be gracing ...

An Oblique and Beautiful Book. The Children’s Bach is a striking picture of how ravaged a life can be when unmoored from any responsibility, and of how necessary it is to take care of others.

The Book Cover in the Weimar Republic debunks the myth, handed down from Isherwood to Cabaret to—god help us—Amanda Palmer back in her Dresden Dolls days, vamping it up in a corset and garter ...

Here are nine beautiful coffee table books that are just as good if not better than the cover would lead you to believe. With everything from helpful decorating how-tos, to magnificent ...

Ann Napolitano toiled in obscurity for years. Novels went unpublished; agents turned her down. She found recognition with “Dear Edward.” Then came the call: “Hello Beautiful” was the 100th ...