You’re standing at the new releases table, running your eyes across the rows of stacks, when your attention is halted by a petite volume in graphic glassy black and matte blue. For a split second you wonder if it’s a bow tie but then you notice the little puff of cloud at the left edge and, instantly, you locate yourself at ground level between two very tall, very shiny buildings. As you look “up,” you see not a plane but The Second Plane: September 11: Terror and Boredrom by Martin Amis, floating there eerily and quietly in the sky. The book may be getting wildly mixed reviews, but the cover, credited to Peter Mendelsund and Chip Kidd, is magic.