Well Covered: The Weekly Sort

Here’s what caught my eye in the bookroom this week:

The cover of “Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature,” by John Mullan, was designed by a Swiss-British woman named Catell Ronca whose Web-site creations are as impeccable as her cover art.

The galley of “Everything But the Squeal: Eating the Whole Hog in Northern Spain,” by John Barlow, which will be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in November, features a nicely framed, nicely attired pig.

How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken,” by Daniel Mendelsohn, uses a photograph by Tanya Marcuse. (Check out the “Wax Bodies” and the “Undergarments and Armor” series on her Web site, for shots of terrifying-looking seventeenth-century wooden corsets.)

Cuba in the American Imagination,” by Louis A. Pérez, Jr., boasts a richly colored cigar-box label.

Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory” by Mickey Hess. The cover gave me no indication that this would be a book about “one year in the life of an adjunct instructor who takes on side jobs as an ice cream man, stand-up comedian, haunted house character, and Billy Graham Crusader,” but it absolutely resembles a box you might pick up off a supermarket shelf.

&#8212Andrea Walker