When Attenberg’s novel “The Middlesteins” came out in 2012, Jonathan Franzen praised the “artistry of her storytelling” — a cover-worthy blurb that was “helpful for the life of my book not just here ...

After fierce online bidding wars for vintage copies of “Entertaining,” a homemaking classic from 1982, the publisher decides to put it back in stores.

When it comes to graphic design trends, book covers are surprisingly instructive. To step into a bookshop is to be surrounded ...