Emily Temple

Here’s Your 2026 Literary Film & TV Preview 60 Adaptations, Documentaries, and Other Book Adjacent Fare to Watch This Year A new year, a new slate of entertainment to distract ourselves from the burning house we’re all streaming from. But we’ve got to... See more

The 50 Biggest Literary Stories of the Year From Goodnight Moon to AI Slop. In 2025, we were surviving, if perhaps not always thriving. We sang along to “Golden” in the grocery store and hung Labubus from our bags. We reheated nachos. We saw Sinners in mu... See more

The 173 Best Book Covers of 2025 According to 52 Book Cover Designers Per Literary Hub tradition, I am pleased to present the best book covers of the year—as chosen by some of the industry’s best book cover designers. This year, I asked 52 designers to sh... See more

The Black List will grant $10,000 to seven writers for its inaugural Unpublished Novel Award. Today, the Black List, which originated as a yearly list of Hollywood’s most-admired but still-unproduced screenplays, announced the seven winners of its inaugur... See more

The 16 Best Book Covers of November Closing out the year Another month of books, another month of book covers. This will be my last roundup of the year, as December will be occupied by our annual Big List of the best covers of the year as chosen by the de... See more