The Book Review’s art director picks his favorite covers from a year that reminded him of the joys of picking up a book and holding it in his hands.
I spent more time browsing in actual bookstores in 2021 than in any year prior, for no reason other than that I could. The preceding stretch of absence felt like a dress rehearsal for an unsavory timeline in which brick-and-mortar shops ceased to exist. I did not like it. But after a year of lockdown, my family rallied to the collective thrill of leaving our home to visit some other place for an extended period of time, and the joy of browsing was real.
Such was my mind-set upon holding books in my aggressively sanitized palms, whenever a cover caught my interest. Left unconsidered, it’s easy for books to look like dressed-up bricks. Online, it’s easier still for a great book cover to vanish in the clamor of everything else vying for attention. But in their natural habitat, on the shelf or on a bookstore table, these covers called to be held and explored even more than the other appealing possibilities stacked nearby. They radiated mystery and devotion to their subjects, and I was grateful just to see them in a physical space, to be standing in front of books again — well apart from the detached confines of a screen. And so I did. Because I could.
The Women of Brewster Place
By Gloria Naylor
Designed by Paul Buckley
Outlawed
By Anne North
Designed by Rachel Willey
100 Boyfriends
By Brontez Purnell
Designed by Na Kim
Antonio
By Beatriz Bracher
Designed by Janet Hansen
Mona
By Paul Oloixarac
Designed by Thomas Colligan
The Weightless World
By Adam Soto
Designed by Tyler Comrie
Chronicles From the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
By Wole Soyinka
Designed by Linda Huang
A Symmetry
By Ari Banias
Designed by Sarahmay Wilkinson
Photograph by Zoe Leonard
Night Train
By A.L. Snijders
Designed by Jamie Keenan
How To Blow Up a Pipeline
By Andreas Malm
Designed by Chantal Jahchan
Greedy
By Jen Winston
Designed by Rodrigo Corral
Laserwriter II
By Tamara Shopsin
Designed by Tamara Shopsin
Matt Dorfman is the art director of the Book Review.
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