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We’ve all been told robots will take our jobs. What if they taught us how to resist instead? The four robots in Annalee Newitz’s new novella, Automatic Noodle, Staybehind, Sweetie, Cayenne, and [...]

Like the stinging wasps in Dante’s Inferno, something needled me as I read Katabasis, the latest from R.F. Kuang, academic and best-selling author of Yellowface, Babel, and The Poppy War series. [...]

Pilgrimage by John Broderick ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Alright, I’ll admit it: I have a crush. But this isn’t just any crush. It’s on a bookstore: McNally Jackson in New York City. Have we met? No. Do they know I [...]

Over the course of Ron Chernow’s lengthy (and I mean lengthy) new biography of Mark Twain, the titular subject comes to feel like a beloved house guest who overstays his welcome. Yet, once gone, [...]

Nasty rumours, intricate plots, boldfaced lies, declarations of love, and accusations of murder – letters containing all these flit across Renaissance Italy in Laurent Binet’s epistolary [...]

You haven’t read a book like The Buffalo Hunter Hunter before. This captivating, disturbing blend of vampire mythology and Indigenous history offers something new to the horror genre. Released on [...]

Anne Tyler’s Three Days in June is a svelte, finely crafted exploration of faithfulness, forgiveness, and family. Her sentences string together like the lace of a wedding veil, a gossamer that [...]

“Anyway, I think, she’s dead, and though I loved her, I now have both the time and freedom to write my essay on Montaigne . . .” With these startling words, Mark Haber launches his tragicomic [...]

If you’re looking to cozy up and get lost in a ripping yarn this holiday season, Held by Anne Michaels isn’t the book for you. But if you’re up for confronting life’s biggest questions, it might [...]

Playground, the latest from Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Powers, uses the island of Makatea as a microcosm for contemporary debates about AI, environmental justice, and neocolonialism. [...]