Not much is known about Janet Halverson, who designed the book covers for titans of the 20th century literary scene: She was born in Maine in 1926; spent her youth in New Haven; worked in New York ...

Book Review. Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel. By Edwin Frank Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 480 pages, $33 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a ...

At first controversial, ‘The Yellow Book’ method caught on, and by the early 20th century book cover design was an established art form. Two versions of the Yellow Book Wikimedia.

Min Jin Lee’s Indelible Twentieth-Century Women The “Pachinko” author recommends four novels that present character studies of bold women making their way in changing times. February 19, 2025 ...

An ambitious new book sees hidden currents linking writers as disparate as Colette, Thomas Mann, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Ralph Ellison, and Chinua Achebe.