Another month of books, another month of book covers. In July, things were obscured. Things were omitted. Things blurred, stretched, melted, smoked. Well, it’s midsummer, after all. I hope you’re getting a little rain where you are. Here are some of my favorite book covers of the month; let me know yours in the comments below.Article continues after advertisement
Jacqueline Harpman, tr. Ros Schwartz, We Were Forbidden; cover design by Jared Bartman (Transit Books, July 7)Gorgeous use of a film filter—is that a figure or a blot? Either way, I love it (especially the horizontal line).
David Thomson, A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies; cover design by Tom Etherington (Simon and Schuster, July 7)Enticing, creative treatment for a nonfiction book.
Emeline Atwood, A Real Animal; cover design by Patrick Sullivan (Catapult, July 7)Quite daring, in its way.
Sigrid Nunez, It Will Come Back to You: The Collected Stories; cover design by Lauren Peters-Collaer (Riverhead, July 14)The perfect sort of mixed media—the “collected stories” in the style of the sketch artist’s signature is particularly working for me here.
