Book Reviews

Welcome to this week in comic book reviews! The staff have come together to read and review nearly everything that released today. It isn't totally comprehensive, but it includes just...

THE SECRET LIVES OF NUMBERS: A Hidden History of Math’s Unsung Trailblazers, by Kate Kitagawa and Timothy RevellMathematics has been described as the longest continuous human thought. This thought is...

Jordan Peele. Random House, $30 (400p) ISBN 978-0-593-24379-4For this electrifying anthology, horror movie director Peele (Get Out: The Annotated Screenplay) brings together 19 Black authors to “give us their Sunken...

Deathcore is very hit or miss for me. On the one hand, it has some of the most talented drummers and vocalists the industry has to offer. Talented musicians who...

Each story begins with a predicament faced by a new main character, who, within a few minutes, invariably stumbles upon a tarot card – a different one each episode –...

In 2016, the well-meaning liberals who would later display in-this-house signs on their lawns were in the market for a certain kind of book. They needed a primer on that...

NEARLY 75 years on from its first publication, C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe retains an undiminished power to inspire, entertain, and fascinate. Jem Bloomfield’s delicious...

When a debut novel is published, the new title inevitably tempts comparison to the back list of other authors. When the writer is Latin American and formerly undocumented, the suggestion...