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★★★☆☆ Stanley Bing’s Immortal Life attempts to carve a niche within the already-crowded company of cultural staples like Westworld, iRobot, Black Mirror, and any number of works in which advances in artificial intelligence and...
★★☆☆☆ KISS co-founder Gene Simmons really likes power. So much so that his new book’s title contains this word three times. On Power: My Journey Through the Corridors of Power and How You Can...
★☆☆☆☆ In Future Home of the Living God, Louise Erdrich suggests the entirety of humanity is God’s afterthought. What if mankind’s creator got bored and moved his attention elsewhere? Would any value or purpose...
★★★☆☆ An understatement: Jeffrey Eugenides is one of the good ones. It’s equally understated to say he doesn’t publish novels all that often. With three to his name, each are about a decade apart....
★★★☆☆ Dr. Kenneth Lacovara’s Why Dinosaurs Matter is a “TED Book,” meaning a book-length expansion on a single TED Talk lecture. The afterward claims that TED Books are designed to be read in a...
★☆☆☆☆ All The Dirty Parts by Daniel Handler delivers on the promise of its clickbaity title with a variety of sexual musings and seduction artist field reports. Cole is a high school student who...
★★★★☆ When a story’s main character possesses that ideal blend of questionable decisions and idiosyncratic worldviews, the resulting novel can really soar. Novelist Alex Gilvarry has accomplished this in the protagonist of Alan Eastman,...
★★★★☆ The Forensic Records Society begins promptly with the formation of its titular organization, a small group of audiophiles who listen to music intently in the back room of an unremarkable England pub. The...
★★★★★ South Pole Station’s July 4th release date is counterintuitive in its timeliness—Ashley Shelby’s novel of a painter’s sojourn at an isolated Antarctic outpost offers excellent escapism for these humid summer months. By glancing...
