Purchase a copy for yourself here! Perhaps no geographic area in the United States holds as much cultural cache as the northern California region, Silicon Valley. The Valley has become more than just a place, but a signifier of the big tech movement, where college dropouts who can’t legally drink can become billionaires overnight. On… Continue reading Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
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Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
Purchase a copy for yourself here! It’s been over a decade since Elizabeth Strout published her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Olive Kitteridge. In the intervening years, the novel was adapted as an award winning series for HBO starring Frances McDormand. Strout has returned to her eponymous heroine in Olive, Again, a collection of stories about the… Continue reading Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
Purchase a copy for yourself here! A Long Petal of the Sea is the twenty-third novel from Isabel Allende, whose prolific career has spanned across decades and continents. The same can be said of her most recent novel, which begins with the Spanish Civil War, and follows the mass exodus of Spanish citizens fleeing from… Continue reading A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
Purchase a copy for yourself here! In his most recent novel, Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu brings his signature wit and inventiveness to a narrative that explores Asian identity, specifically through a popular media lens. The novel is set in a fictional universe where the whole world is a series of scripted television programs, and all… Continue reading Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
Erosion by Terry Tempest Williams
Purchase a copy for yourself here! Erosion is the recent essay collection from Terry Tempest Williams, an author and activist who has been writing about the environment and humanity’s relationship to it for decades. This collection encapsulates both the private and the public, including fierce calls to defend America’s public lands, as well as Williams’… Continue reading Erosion by Terry Tempest Williams
Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James
Purchase a copy for yourself here! Black Leopard Red Wolf is the most recent novel from Jamaican author Marlon James, and the follow up to his Man Booker Prize-winning 2014 novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings. James has stated that this novel is the first in his Dark Star trilogy, which will be a… Continue reading Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Purchase a copy for yourself here! Bernadine Evaristo’s eighth work of fiction, Girl, Woman, Other, earned her the Booker Prize for Fiction in 2019, marking the first instance in which the prize has ever been awarded to a black woman. The novel centers on the experiences of twelve black women in Britain, all of whom… Continue reading Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
The Great Pretender by Susannah Cahalan
Purchase a copy for yourself here! The Great Pretender is Susannah Cahalan’s recent follow up to her New York Times bestselling memoir, Brain on Fire, which chronicled her journey with sudden onset paranoia and psychosis that initially got her diagnosed as bipolar and then schizophrenic, but was eventually discovered to be a product of a… Continue reading The Great Pretender by Susannah Cahalan
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
Purchase a copy for yourself here! Yoko Ogawa’s The Memory Police, originally published in Japan in 1994, has become available to the English speaking world by way of Stephen Snyder’s recent translation. This novel is a richly textured indictment of authoritarianism and anphilosophical meditation on the nature of memory. Through simple allegorical device, Ogawa creates… Continue reading The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Purchase a copy for yourself here! Salman Rushdie’s Booker Prize-winning novel, Midnight’s Children, first published almost 40 years ago in 1981, is a novel that is always worth revisiting, but feels especially relevant in the current political era. The novel tells the story of the life of Saleem Sinai, a boy who is born at… Continue reading Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie