Meet Theia! Named after the “extremely extraordinary” Greek goddess of light, the chipper orange planet recounts the origins of the solar system. Back then, Earth was “a great big, fiery ball of molten rock,” much like Theia. In fact, the two quickly became “besties”…until the momentous day when Theia, caught in Earth’s gravity, helplessly crashed […]
Fans of The Last of Us will find much to like in this tale of dystopian deprivation, in which a woman named May and her 10-year-old child, Davis, who has high support needs, are hunkered down in a Connecticut library, eating canned beans and stale crackers after a massive outbreak of the White Lung virus […]
Austen’s invitation to afternoon tea at Chawton Cottage—in the form of a handwritten note—implores the recipient to “come with an open mind and a readiness to engage in a few puzzles, ciphers, and mysteries.” At tea, Austen explains that since you have “no ties to our tangled social circles,” she can trust you to discover […]
In 1967, Warhol published his Index, a silver-wrapped compendium of interview snippets; partial transcripts of recordings with members of his Factory, where silver was the dominant color; and black-and-white photographs of his work and acolytes. This facsimile reprint gives modern readers a chance to revisit or newly share in the experience. Most famously, Index was […]
Hunter Long, a former professional boxer, has worked hard to make his own way at the CIA, despite constant comparisons between his own career and that of his late grandfather, an agency legend. Hunter receives a classified briefing one day and learns that a notorious Russian operative, Victor Chernov, is actually a double agent who’s […]
The title refers to lists readers are encouraged to make, which become the basis for the stimulating exercises, games, and prompts, organized in six chapters. Hendrix approaches the topic with a rare mixture of wit, sound advice, and philosophical musings, building to a work that’s far more than the sum of its parts. He establishes […]
The struggle for belonging and self-acceptance drives this Midwestern family’s mini-dramas in the 2010s. The humorously upbeat narrative alternates between the third-person perspectives of three generations of Jewish women: Mona Grossman, her teenage daughter Grace, and Mona’s grandmother, Esther “Bubby” Rosenfeld. Mona, a full-time homemaker, struggles to reconnect with Grace, and to save her marriage […]
It’s 2023, and it’s been two weeks since Beatrice Carter awoke from seizure-induced unconsciousness, and she still has no idea who she is. The only identification on her person was a gym membership card, and even then, she’s unsure if the name on the ID is truly hers, as a police search yielded no results: […]
As the story opens, 12-year-old Dylan Dearborne is yearning for a bit of permanence. She and her mother, Maggie, are living in Springfield, Oregon, in the early 1980s with a nice, decent man named Joe and his teen daughter, Anna. Maggie’s been wandering aimlessly with Dylan for years (“She’d been shuffled from one place to […]
Bobb has been immersed in STEM education at Georgia Tech, Google, and the National Science Foundation. He weaves together the many threads of race, technology, and American history, alongside his own personal history as an immigrant son of Guyana, to clarify the stakes for Blacks as we enter an AI-dominated world. From school segregation to […]