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The Quiet Earthquake of Intimacy

Sally Rooney's 'Intermezzo' dissects grief and desire with the precision of a surgeon and the tenderness of a poet

There is a particular kind of novel that makes you set it down every thirty pages — not because it bores you, but because it has said something so precisely true about the way people fail each other that you need a moment to recover. Sally Rooney's fourth novel, 'Intermezzo,' is that kind of book.

By Eleanor Voss·8 min read·★★★★★
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Non-Fiction

The Information Apocalypse Is Already Here

In 'Nexus,' Yuval Noah Harari traces the history of information networks — and warns that we are losing control of the one we built

Yuval Noah Harari wants you to be afraid. Not of artificial intelligence itself — he has always been too nuanced for that particular brand of techno-panic — but of the information networks that AI is rapidly reshaping. His new book, 'Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI,' is both a sweeping intellectual history and an urgent alarm bell.

Marcus Chen·7 min read·★★★★★
Science Fiction

Time Travel Has Never Felt This Personal

Kaliane Bradley's debut 'The Ministry of Time' is a genre-defying romance wrapped in a spy thriller wrapped in a meditation on empire

Here is a novel that should not work. It is a time-travel romance. It is a spy thriller. It is a postcolonial critique of the British Empire. It is very funny. It is, at times, genuinely frightening. That Kaliane Bradley has woven all of these threads into a debut novel that feels not merely coherent but inevitable is a feat bordering on sorcery.

James Okonkwo·6 min read·★★★★★
SEL

The Things That Never Change

Morgan Housel's 'Same as Ever' argues that the secret to understanding the future is studying what stays constant

Priya Sharma·★★★★★

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