Prepared for My Shut-Up, by David M. Lubin (Grand Central). Within the late nineteen-forties, Hollywood was in transition: the blacklist was demolishing careers, the studio system was imploding, and tv …
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The Ten Yr Affair, by Erin Somers (Simon & Schuster). On the outset of this intoxicating novel, a married man and a married lady meet in a child group, the …
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The Gods of New York, by Jonathan Mahler (Random Home). This chronicle of New York Metropolis covers 4 “convulsive and consequential” years in its historical past, 1986 by way of …
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If Anybody Builds It, Everybody Dies, by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares (Little, Brown). This controversial best-selling manifesto argues that the creation of synthetic superintelligence (or A.S.I.) would result in …
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Coronary heart the Lover, by Lily King (Grove). The connection between Jordan, the narrator of this affecting novel, and Yash, the person she falls in love with in school, is …
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Swallows, by Natsuo Kirino, translated from the Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda (Knopf). This acerbic novel explores the ramifications of a controversial matter in Japan: surrogacy. (Though the follow is authorized …
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