Tommy Orange’s There There offers a searing reading experience.
This Past Was Waiting for Me: A Chronicle at Quarter Century
By Sarah Trembath
An astute, multi-genre analysis of gentrification’s destructiveness.
The biographer talks Mary Kay, direct sales, and those signature pink Cadillacs.
Ghost-Eye: A Novel
By Amitav Ghosh
An expansive tale of myth and modernity in India.
The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity
By Robert Wright
Evolution has been building toward something — and we’re not going to like what it is.
I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness
By Irene Solà; translated by Mara Faye Lethem
Women confront the devil, the perversity of war, and their own capacity for malice.
A recap of the books we’ve spotlighted in the past few days.
The Rarest Fruit
By Gaëlle Bélem; translated by Hildegarde Serle
An enslaved boy’s cuisine-altering innovation is credited to his white “father.”
A Century of Hitchcock: The Man, the Myths, the Legacy
By Tony Lee Moral
Two figures from the auteur’s orbit feature heavily in this new biography.
Introducing Science Politics
By Kelly J. Kelly and Emily Mendenhall
Why we launched a “journazine.”
Red Sheet: A Novel
By James Ellroy
Freddy Otash returns, although he probably shouldn’t have.
