book reviews

Now, for something completely different from the Canadian award-winning author

Another compulsively readable book from science writer Mary Roach

Klosterman’s new series of thought experiments is designed to question everything we take for granted

Ben Lerner explores The Hatred of Poetry with the best, and worst, the genre has to offer

Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller, two baseball wonks, get a chance to apply their wildest data dreams in real life

Madeleine Thien offers a family saga set amidst the Chinese Cultural Revolution

Understanding today’s radicals and resisters, through an oral history of August 1969 to August 1970

A snapshot of the current consensus on the very first cave drawings

Moby’s autobiography is endearing, poignant and laugh-out-loud hilarious

Journalist Kamal Al-Solaylee explores What Being Brown in the World Today Means (To Everyone)