Jack Smyth

New illustration for the New Yorker, both online and in print.
Huge thanks to Art Director Supriya Kalidas.

Book Covers of Note, September 2025 Hey. I hope you're keeping safe and well. I'm posting this late on the last day of the month, but hopefully it was worth waiting for. I will let you get to the covers posthaste, but before I go, today (September 30th) is also Orange Shirt Day and National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada, so I would like take a moment to acknowledge and remember the survivors of residential schools, their families and the kids who didn't come home.

Here are this month's book cover of note

Mary Robinson is such a baller.

Book Covers of Note, August 2025 Hey. Here are this month’s book covers of note. Archipelago by Natalie Bakopoulos; design by Beth Steidle (Tin House Books / August 2025) I really had to wrack my brain to think of what this …

ICYMI last week, here's the most recent book covers of note post:

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Dang.

I don't have lots to say this month, but there are lots of great book covers all the same...

Reissue cover for Dave Randal's Sound System, out now on @plutopress.bsky.social

Art Direction by Melanie Patrick.

Cover for Swallows by Natsuo Kirino, out now on Canongate.

Art Director: Rafi Romaya

Injury Time by Kevin Smith - The Lilliput Press In this sharp-eyed comedy of memories, middle age and long-buried mistakes, a privileged entrepreneur feels the chill winds of post-Brexit change in a society struggling to account for its past.

-a genuine exploration of aging, masculinity, and the slow erosion of certainty.

Out this September, Injury Time is available to pre-order from the Lilliput website now 📚

Cover design by the incredible @jackflag.bsky.social ✨️

Available to pre-order here: www.lilliputpress.ie/products/inj...

Illustration for Adam Gopnik's piece 'Was the Renaissance Real?' in The New Yorker this week.

Huge thanks to Art Director Supriya Kalidas.

Thanks Dan!

23 of the Best Book Covers of July 2025 – PRINT Magazine Riffing with McSweeney's Sunra Thompson on the double cover for 'Mostly Everything: The Art of Tucker Nichols,' plus our favorite cover finds of the month.

And here are Zachary Petit's latest book cover picks for PRINT Magazine!

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It's absolutely wild to me that Stanley Tucci has yet to release his own brand of cantucci.

I'd love to pick up a bag of Stantuccis the next time I'm in Italy.

First look: the gorgeous cover of FILLY, Rosamund Taylor's stunning novel-in-verse, coming from Banshee Press in October 2025. Cover photography by Oana Stoian, with design by Jack Smyth ✨

@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social @jackflag.bsky.social

Surely Andor is a show about people who can't make up their minds. In space.

Cheers Max!

Cover design for Harbour Doubts by Bebe Ashley, publishing today via @bansheepress.bsky.social

Love hearing the US acts say "Hello Glaston Berry!" every year.

Book Covers of Note, June 2025 It’s been another busy month here, so apologies for the slightly scattered post. It includes a few covers that I missed earlier in early in the year, and a few other bits and pieces. I hope e…

ICYMI, here's my latest round-up of new and recent book covers and design trends:

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Book Covers of Note, June 2025 It's been another busy month here, so apologies for the slightly scattered post. It includes a few covers that I missed earlier in early in the year, and a few other bits and pieces. I hope everyone is doing OK. Here are the covers... Audition by Pip Adam; cover art by Leopold Adi Surya (Coffee House Press / June 2025)

Here are this month's book covers of note!

See you there!

Thanks Daniel!

Cover for Monaghan (mo-na-han for the non-Gaels out there) by Timothy O'Grady, out today.

The second image shows some process work, where I made some ink prints with a roller from a cutout of my brother's silhouette from a photograph.

Cover Design for The Slip, by Lucas Schaefer.
Published today by Simon & Schuster.

Art Direction by Jackie Seow.

Book Covers of Note, May 2025 Hey, sorry, just sliding in under the wire with another slightly rushed post this month. I hope everyone is safe and well (all things considered). Let’s just get on with it shall we? Autocorr…

This month's book covers post is up on the @casualoptimist.bsky.social blog 🐿️

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Book Covers of Note, May 2025 Hey, sorry, just sliding in under the wire with another slightly rushed post this month. I hope everyone is safe and well (all things considered). Let's just get on with it shall we? Autocorrect by Etgar Keret; design by Lauren Peters-Collaer (Riverhead / May 2025) The Bombshell by Darrow Farr; design by Colin Webber (Pamela Dorman Books / May 2025)

Book Covers of Note, May 2025

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llustration for Katy Waldman's article on Colum McCann's new book Twist for The New Yorker.

Art Direction by Supriya Kalidas.

@newyorker.com

Cover for This Interim Time , essays by Oona Frawley

Cover for the new edition of An Arán Keening by Andrew McNeillie

Cover for The Correction of Taste by Denis Donoghue

Cover for To Avenge a Dead Glacier by Shane Tivenan.

New, recent and forthcoming books from @lilliputpress.bsky.social - from Oona Frawley, Shane Tivenan, Andrew McNeillie (all May) & the late Denis Donoghue (coming in June)

Thanks Dan!