2026-01-27 03:09:37
Every year since 2016, Literary Hub has asked a group of book cover designers for their picks for the best book covers of the year. Using 10 years of data, here are their picks for the best covers of the last decade. I’ve included a few of my personal favorites below.
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2026-01-27 02:04:54
“For a month, I tried: swapping my iPhone for a Nokia which I can only use to text, call and play Snake; also, a Walkman and a film camera. I picked up physical copies of books, newspapers…” What Emma Russell learned from her digital detox.
2026-01-27 00:03:52
“The imperial boomerang is the theory that governments that develop repressive techniques to control colonial territories will eventually deploy those same techniques domestically against their own citizens.”
2026-01-26 23:35:54
M. Gessen: “It’s only natural that our brains struggle to find logic in what we are seeing. There is a logic, and this logic has a name. It’s called state terror.”
2026-01-26 23:09:40
Thomas Zimmer on the stakes of Minnesota’s struggle against tyranny. “A society that has any aspiration to be free and democratic cannot — it must not! — tolerate the existence of an agency like ICE.”
2026-01-26 22:49:37
ICE/DHS has killed nine people in 2026 (that we know of): Keith Porter, Parady La, Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos, Alex Pretti, and Renee Good.