“There is no word for ‘design’ in our Indian languages,” says design historian Suchitra Balasubramanyan. The discourse, she points out, has been built almost entirely in English, shaped by upper-caste ...

Detail of the cover of Victoria Redel's I Am You (2025) (image courtesy SJP Lit) Walk into any bookstore in the United States lately, and the shelves and new-release tables resemble group exhibitions.

Most videos on book cover designer Elisha Zepeda’s TikTok account have a similar format: he gets an assignment from a publisher, crafts several options, gets feedback, makes some tweaks, and, finally, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the future of books and the business of storytelling. Jul 19, 2019, 11:30am EDT Jul 19, 2019, 06:11pm EDT This ...

Primary school students have been reading TikTok sensation Icebreaker, an enemies-to-lovers romance about a figure skater and an ice hockey player. The cartoon cover features a ponytailed girl (who ...