The story behind the year’s best book cover

Arsh Raziuddin and Greg Mollica on designing the jacket for Salman Rushdie’s memoir, ‘Knife.’

It’s bold. It’s restrained. It’s graceful. It’s terrifying. It feels inevitable, yet it’s startling. There’s no easy way to describe the cover for Salman Rushdie’s Knife, which is why it’s one of the best book covers of the year. 

​ Arsh Raziuddin and Greg Mollica on designing the jacket for Salman Rushdie’s memoir, ‘Knife.’

It’s bold. It’s restrained. It’s graceful. It’s terrifying. It feels inevitable, yet it’s startling. There’s no easy way to describe the cover for Salman Rushdie’s Knife, which is why it’s one of the best book covers of the year.