The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence – Before It’s Too LateBy Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow has, by his own estimation, produced over 30 books. Whenever you pick up Doctorow, there’s a real question: Is it going to be a thrillingly controversial, like, “Enshitification,” which is required reading
Every month, there’s a flood of new books fighting for a spot on your TBR. But with so much competing for your attention, it’s easy to lose sight of the ones you’re most excited about. And often, you only hear about the titles with the biggest marketing budgets. So, how do you keep up with
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Regime change: inside Donald Trump’s imperial presidencyBy Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan In January 2026, The New York Times asked Donald Trump why, after telling his family not to make new business deals in foreign countries during his first term as president, he was now allowing them to do so. He replied: “Because I found
Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet spawned a global phenomenon, and in 2024, new York Times Name my brilliant friend—The first book in the series—the best book of the century so far. This is a big deal! So what does it take to be #1, and what does the selection reveal about modern reading habits and values?
Over three decades, Ghosh has produced a brilliant series of consistently smart, consistently exploratory novels. He’s at Ohtani-level, his ambition made it all the more unrealistic. Dude’s always swinging for the fences. Which brings us to Ghosh’s latest novel. How to describe the wild “Ghost-Eye”? “Ghost-Eye” is about Varsha, a 3-year-old girl from Calcutta in
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Today’s literary headlines include a surprisingly heart-touching copyright claim involving the Peanuts gang, a new chatbot feature for Google Play Books, and more. A Copyright Claim We Can All Feel Good About As you probably know, Late Show with Stephen Colbert It was canceled by CBS, claiming that “purely a financial decision“It had nothing to
Writing in line with Cixous’s demands, Magalleque also uses these revelations to help understand her life, deftly moving the reader between her distant past and her present, personal encounters with desire, miscarriage, birth, ambition. She describes her grandmother’s cooking and self-deception, reconstructing the violence of her own labor and delivery. Much of the world his