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★★★★☆ This “scientific biography” of tuberculosis (TB) is a fascinating, scholarly account of a persistent, often misunderstood disease. TB, as Kathryn Lougheed so eloquently reveals, has been with us since we became us. With...
★★★★☆ Earlier this year, Jeff VanderMeer published Borne, a terrifically surreal book of dystopian sci-fi zoology. Following the success of his 2014 “Southern Reach” trilogy (the first volume of which is currently being adapted...
★★★☆☆ “The world is a moving maze of signs,” Muñoz Molina writes early in his kaleidoscopic new novel Like a Fading Shadow. It’s a potent warning of what’s to come: partly an autobiographical writing...
★★★★☆ Long before the cult of personality promulgated by the tabloid “news” outlets of today, Isadora Duncan was known by one name. More than one hundred years later Isadora conjures memories of a life...
★★★★☆ Uncomfortably Happily is a gentle slice-of-life manhwa memoir about adapting to change. Yeon-Sik and his wife move from Seoul to the mountains in an effort to clear their heads from the busy clamor...
★★★★☆ 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...
★★★★☆ Beren and Lúthien. These two names are engraved on the tombstone beneath the names of John Ronald Ruel Tolkien and Edith Bratt Tolkien. They met when he was 16 and she 19. His...
★★★★★ 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...
★★☆☆☆ It’s surprising that the opening of Modern Gods wasn’t rewritten: two masked men open fire in a local bar while a band is playing, spraying the crowd with bullets from an AK-47. Somehow...
