







Gothic fiction: the lush sister to stripped-down noir. Just as atmospheric, just as hard to define. But we know it when we see it! And we’re here to celebrate all the many new additions to th…
The Best Books of 2025
The New Yorker’s editors and critics choose this year’s essential reads in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.


You can just read 25 books (a16z Infra edition)
Essential Sci-Fi recommendations, plus some fantasy and non-fiction

Notable Book Covers of 2025
Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar; illustration by Stephen Smith; art direction by Suzanne Dean (Vintage Classics / August 2025) Bestiary: The Selected Stories of Julio Cortázar by Julio Cortázar; illust…

Libra Season: iPhone Modernism by Travis Diehl
The shock-of-the-new is back in literature, rebooted for screen time – and with it, the question: To what end should writing reflect our networked selves?
After the Deluge: What Future for Climate Fiction? - Public Books
Even in a world remade, the past defines the present.



Holding Pattern by Jenny Xie | East Bay Booksellers
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, VOGUE, VULTURE, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, AND ELECTRIC LITERATUREA NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION "5 UNDER 35" HONOREE"Exquisite and wise.
Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simon…
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The Curious About Everything Newsletter #66
The many interesting things I read in August 2026

[009] Folkification - Dreaming at the Edge of the Apocalypse
Sunday 24 August 2025