EditorialA customer uses a machine developed by Co-Star, a technology company with a buzzy astrology app that uses AI to generate readings, at Iconic Magazines in New York, June 24, 2023. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
EditorialPrintouts at the U.C.L.A. library’s Preservation & Conservation Department illustrate the difference in environmental readings from 2021 and 2022, in Los Angeles on Dec. 21, 2022. (Jessica Pons/The New York Times)
EditorialPartygoers gather in the living room of Cat Fitzpatrick’s home in Brooklyn to listen to readings, in New York, on Dec. 9, 2022. (Desmond Picotte/The New York Times)
EditorialThe writer and editor Amy Rose Spiegel reads at a gathering for the Perverted Book Club in Manhattan, Dec. 17, 2022. (Calla Kessler/The New York Times)