The Widows of Malabar Hill, published by Soho Crime in 2018, opens a historical mystery series with a protagonist who earns her place among the most compelling figures in contemporary crime fiction. Perveen Mistry is one of India’s first female lawyers, working in Bombay in 1921, a city of layered beauties and daily injustices where…
Summary Nir Eyal built his reputation writing about persuasive technology. His first book, Hooked, gave product designers a framework for building habit-forming products. Indistractable is the corrective: a methodical guide to understanding why those products, and dozens of other forces, capture our attention against our wishes, and what we can do about it. The book…
Summary Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who one day finds herself devastated by a sudden breakup and, on the advice of a colleague, sits down on the other side of the couch. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone tracks what happens next: her sessions with a therapist named Wendell unfold alongside the stories of four…
Ramez Naam’s Apex concludes his Nexus trilogy with the throttle fully open — a techno-thriller that is also a genuinely serious inquiry into the political, ethical, and existential implications of human cognitive enhancement. The trilogy began with a drug called Nexus that links human minds in a network; Apex traces the global crisis that erupts…
Steven Nadler and Ben Nadler’s Heretics! The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy is something rare: a work of genuine philosophical substance delivered in the form of a graphic novel, accessible to general readers without sacrificing intellectual integrity. A philosopher father and a cartoonist son collaborate here to bring the great heretics of early…
Ilaria Tuti’s Flowers Over the Inferno, translated from the Italian by Ekin Oklap and published by Soho Crime in 2019, announces a major new voice in European crime fiction with the assurance of a novelist who knows exactly what she is doing. The novel introduces Teresa Battaglia, a senior detective and criminal profiler working in…
Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeannette Ng is a fascinating and darkly atmospheric debut that reimagines Victorian Gothic fiction through the lens of colonial theology and fae mythology. About the Book Jeannette Ng’s debut novel is set in an alternate Victorian England in which the existence of Faerie—the realm of the fae—is a known and…
Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) appeared in September 2018 from Haymarket Books and landed with the compressed force of a book that knows exactly what it is doing. Rebecca Solnit gathered twenty-two essays written in the years immediately following the 2016 presidential election, essays that had appeared in the Guardian,…
Kameron Hurley’s The Light Brigade, published by Saga Press in 2019, begins with a premise that sounds like hardware and turns out to be philosophy. Corporate soldiers fighting an interstellar war against Mars are broken down into light and beamed across space to their combat drops. Most of them arrive intact. One soldier, known throughout…
Rad American Women A-Z by Kate Schatz is a vibrant, joyful, and genuinely illuminating alphabet book for children and adults alike — one that introduces young readers to twenty-six extraordinary American women who changed history, challenged the status quo, and proved that being radical is not a dirty word but a badge of honor. About…
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