Check out the cover for Brian Phillips's IMPOSSIBLE OWLS!

We are pumped! Why? Because today we reveal the cover for Brian Phillips’s Impossible Owls. Designed by Jamie Keenan (and animated by Sungpyo Hong), this collaged cover is a pretty perfect reflection of what’s inside: mind-bending essays on sensational topics. Man-eating tigers! UFOs! Frozen seas! Kate Middleton!

We have three suggestions: Preorder this badboy, tell all your friends, and check out Brian’s recently revived blog, Run of Play, for updates on Impossible Owls.

Brian Phillips is a former staff writer for Grantland and a former senior writer for MTV News. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, Slate, and Poetry, among other publications, as well as in Best American Sports Writing and Best American Magazine Writing. He lives in Los Angeles.