A version of this article appears in print on July 6, 2025, Page 22 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: Cover Stories / The Trend You’re Seeing Everywhere.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park sees the return of Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), as he travels to Isla Sorna, another island inhabited by InGen's dinosaurs.

If most book cover designs are conceived as quick-to-metabolize marketing tools, a great one can make the reader do a double take in slow motion. A good first impression is, of course, the goal ...

Steven Spielberg's 1993 movie Jurassic Park was groundbreaking, with its best characters remaining icons today. That said, the movie and its sequel, The Lost World, were based on books by Michael ...