I just stumbled across a Flickr pool of cover art from volume III of Penguin’s Great Ideas series. They’re brilliant. Screw “fun” and “drinking” and “hippie music festivals,” these covers make me want to lock myself inside and read all weekend:

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Alison Hallett served nobly as the Mercury's arts editor from 2008-2014. Her proud legacy lives on.