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The 14 Best Book Covers of January

The 14 Best Book Covers of January

Starting the Year Off Right

By Emily Temple | January 30, 2025

“Intimacy” and “Endurance,” Two Poems by Maria Ferguson

“Intimacy” and “Endurance,” Two Poems by Maria Ferguson

From the Collection “Swell”

By Maria Ferguson | January 30, 2025

What We Lost In the Fire: On the Stories We Tell To Fill Life’s Empty Spaces

What We Lost In the Fire: On the Stories We Tell To Fill Life’s Empty Spaces

For Lea Carpenter, “There is a third story, the one told in the second person. This is the story you tell yourself.”

By Lea Carpenter | January 30, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Pádraig Ó Tuama is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Pádraig Ó Tuama is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Margaret Atwood, Feargal Ó Béarra, Vona Groarke, and Others

By Diana Arterian | January 30, 2025

Lan Samantha Chang on the Risks and Rewards of Literary Personas

Lan Samantha Chang on the Risks and Rewards of Literary Personas

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | January 30, 2025

What If Instead of Making Paperclips We Asked an AI Super-Intelligence to Make Us All Happy?

What If Instead of Making Paperclips We Asked an AI Super-Intelligence to Make Us All Happy?

Deni Ellis Béchard Considers the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Worlds Fictional and Real

By Deni Ellis Béchard | January 29, 2025

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Books of the Week

More Than a Muse: Kay Sohini on Discovering Literary New York

By Kay Sohini | January 29, 2025

Will Humanity Ever Fully Include the Nonhuman World in Its Moral Circle?

By Jeff Sebo | January 29, 2025

Humanity’s Claustrophobia: How Technology and Globalization Created a World in Crisis

By Robert D. Kaplan | January 29, 2025

How an Obscure German Noblewoman Influenced the Way Anne Frank Wrote Her Diary

How an Obscure German Noblewoman Influenced the Way Anne Frank Wrote Her Diary

Biographer Ruth Franklin on the Value of a Careful Eye and Fresh Perspective

By Ruth Franklin | January 29, 2025

André Alexis on Martha Baillie's <em>There Is No Blue</em>

André Alexis on Martha Baillie's There Is No Blue

In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | January 29, 2025

How Literature Predicted and Portrayed the Atom Bomb

How Literature Predicted and Portrayed the Atom Bomb

Dorian Lynskey on Pierrepoint B. Noyes, H.G. Wells, and the “Superweapons” of Early Science-Fiction

By Dorian Lynskey | January 28, 2025

Sex, Love and Longing in 1970s Gay New York: Edmund White on His Past Lovers

Sex, Love and Longing in 1970s Gay New York: Edmund White on His Past Lovers

“He was a Peter Pan, the puer aeternus. I was abject in my longing for him.”

By Edmund White | January 28, 2025

How Black and White America Reacted to Maya Angelou’s <em>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings</em>

How Black and White America Reacted to Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Scott W. Stern on the Reception of an American Classic and the Birth of a Renaissance of Black Women Writers

By Scott W. Stern | January 28, 2025

“In the Name of the Bee,” a Poem by Pádraig O’ Tuama

“In the Name of the Bee,” a Poem by Pádraig O’ Tuama

From the Collection “Kitchen Hymns”

By Pádraig Ó' Tuama | January 28, 2025

Emily Greenhouse on the Whole Self

Emily Greenhouse on the Whole Self

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

By The Critic and Her Publics | January 28, 2025

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