So as “Best Book Covers of the Year” lists pop off this month, let’s celebrate the work that didn’t win the day. Here are some of the best book covers of 2023 that you did not see—with ...

Our columnist selects the books that have stuck with her this year. By Elisa Gabbert Reading a lot of books in one genre, too close together, can start to drive you senseless, the way saying the ...

Go ahead, judge a book by its cover. We asked book cover designers to pick the best book covers of 2025 and tell us what makes them so great. Our editors and experts handpick every product we feature.

By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert is the author of six collections of poetry ... Here are five of the books I loved most in this mode in 2023. The image on the cover of AUCTION, by Quan Barry ...

I think more and more that I’d like to do a book on the bog – Irish bog with salutations to Jutland.” Whence came his best early collection, North (1975), with its poems about ancient bodies ...

Dao’s first book-length poem transports us through the years, countries and memories that followed his 1989 expulsion from China (his poems were recited by students in Tiananmen Square).

Grief, trauma, family, America — these may not be rare subjects of poetry but they are rarely handled with such a sensitive scrutiny, breathtaking in its expression. The Forward Book of Poetry ...