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Culture journalist @Esquire @Wired & elsewhere. Author of A DANGER TO THE MINDS OF YOUNG GIRLS (@SimonSchuster). Repped by @nedlovesbooks.

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Adam Morgan is the founding editor of the Chicago Review of Books and the Southern Review of Books, as well as the Chicago Literary Archive. His essays and criticism have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago magazine, The AV Club, The Guardian, Poets & Writers, Literary Hub, Longreads, Chicago Reader, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and elsewhere, with an emphasis on Chicago, Midwestern, Southern, and speculative literature. By day, he's the editorial direct…

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I've seen the lost 'Myst' game—and we're all losers (for now)

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By Adam Morgan Verified
| thefrontlist.org
Cyan Worlds (Anglerfish demo) This week, I wrote a feature for Wired magazine about a recently shelved Myst game codenamed Anglerfish and why it portends a funding crisis in the video game industry. During my reporting, Cyan’s studio heads were kind enough to walk me through the first half-hour of a demo they built for publishers last year. While I found the game’s pitch trailer impressive, playing through the demo broke my heart all over again.
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The Folio Society’s Spring Collection is a genre fiction mother lode

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By Adam Morgan Verified, elsewhere. He
| alderbr.ink
Today, March 3, the Folio Society is launched its 2026 Spring Collection featuring nine new titles that range from science fiction and fantasy to reportage and epic poetry. While last year’s Christmas Collection was notable for its nonfiction headliners, this time around the biggest standouts are genre fiction — beginning with a well-timed contemporary sci-fi classic. The Martian by Andy Weir ($110 unsigned, $230 signed).
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The 22 Most Anticipated Books of 2026

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By Adam Morgan Verified
| Esquire Singapore Verified
I hope you’ve got plenty of shelf-space set aside this year, because many of the biggest names in books have new titles on the way in 2026. Over the next few months of winter and spring, that includes heavyweights like George Saunders, Louise Erdrich, and Yann Martel. Over the summer, we’ll be blessed with new novels by Ann Patchett, Colson Whitehead, and Andrew Sean Greer. And what’s that, looming around the corner this fall? None other than Min Jin Lee and Emily St. John Mandel.
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