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Recommended Books: December 2025 and January 2026

January 9, 2026 No Comments

December & January book covers

Hello! You might have noticed that we skipped doing one of these last month, due in part to some deadlines and in part due to a fairly sparse publishing schedule. That doesn’t mean the publishing schedule was completely bare, though — hence this serving as two months’ worth of recommendations.

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Bites

Afternoon Bites: Amit Chaudhuri’s Fiction, Alexandrine Ogundimu on Writing, Jodi M. Savage’s Playlist, and More

January 6, 2026 No Comments

A New World


In our afternoon reading: thoughts on a novel by Amit Chaudhuri, the nature of AI music, and more.

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Morning Bites: Pankaj Mishra on Amit Chaudhuri, Weike Wang Fiction, Nathan Oates on Books, and More

August 1, 2023 No Comments

"The Immortals"
In our morning reading: thoughts on “The Immortals,” fiction by Weike Wang, and more.

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Afternoon Bites: Brandon Taylor’s Latest, Amit Chaudhuri Interviewed, Amber Sparks Fiction, and More

June 21, 2021 No Comments

"Filthy Animals"
In our afternoon reading: thoughts on Brandon Taylor’s new collection, an interview with Torrey Peters, and more.

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Afternoon Bites: Henry Hoke’s Playlist, Amit Chaudhuri, Adrian Tomine Interviewed, Iain Sinclair, and More

April 29, 2021 No Comments

"The Groundhog Forever"
In our afternoon reading: a playlist from Henry Hoke, an interview with Adrian Tomine, and more.

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Afternoon Bites: Michael Bible Interviewed, McKenzie Wark, Amit Chaudhuri’s Poetry, Ron Rash, and More

December 16, 2020 No Comments

"The Ancient Hours"
In our afternoon reading: an interview with Michael Bible, what it’s like to run a virtual literary festival, and more.

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Morning Bites: Ursula K. Le Guin Remembered, Amit Chaudhuri, Caroline Cabrera Interviewed, Pere Ubu Revisited, and More

January 24, 2018 No Comments


In our morning reading: remembrances of Ursula K. Le Guin, an interview with Caroline Cabrera, and much more.

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Featured

  • A Very Particular Nightmare: On Aoife Josie Clements’s “Persona”
  • Fraught Connections: A Review of Mike Powell’s “New Paltz, New Paltz”
  • Revisiting Pulp Comics History With a “Savage Tales of the 1980s” Excerpt
  • More Questions than Answers in Christopher Beha’s “Why I Am not an Atheist” 

Sunday Stories

  • Sunday Stories: “We’ve Got A Pill For That”
  • Sunday Stories: “The Quiet Fire”
  • Sunday Stories: “Flare”
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Essays

  • Notes on Darius Jones’s “Legend of e’Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye)”
  • How to See in the Dark
  • It’s Fun to Think About, Sometimes
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