What makes you pick up a book you’ve never heard of? Is it the title, the author’s name, or the promise of an intriguing story? More often than not, it’s the cover—a single image that has ...

This week, explore a medieval manuscript, spy an underwater volcano ready to erupt off the US West Coast, encounter T. rex’s ancestor, and more.

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They definitely didn’t dress like they did in Bonanza.” Unique to illustrating for a book cover is that the images have to be more vertical, which Manchess saw as a welcome challenge.

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In “Six Minutes to Winter,” Mark Lynas explores the lasting threat and true horror of nuclear weapons.

Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the binding of another book, according to experts at the Cambridge University Library in England.

Here’s how Columbia University’s leadership can atone for its sins last spring: Throw the book at pro-Hamas thugs who stormed and illegally occupied the campus library during finals week.