Book Review
The Ugly Fight
The book’s extended thought experiment, which details how AI could impact our fight against climate change, is compelling. R. S. Amblee’s technological, environmental examination, Unleashing Artificial Intelligence Against Global...
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Buddhism for Western Children
"Buddhism for Western Children" is a dreamlike literary novel that journeys into the psyche of cult living from the perspective of a child. Daniel’s parents, Ray and Cleary, bring him to Avadhoot Master King Ivanovich’s farm in Maine...
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True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape
Micah Perks’s "True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape" contains plot twists inside of plot twists. Interconnected short stories reveal how characters’ inner battles to find love and to be loved create a world of conflict,...
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Spirit of the Fox
"Spirit of the Fox" is a gripping, culturally immersed mystery. Matthew O’Connell’s intriguing and compelling mystery, "Spirit of the Fox", draws on the culture and history of Japan. Meiko, whose parents, David and Chieko, are...
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Trans Kids
Tey Meadow’s sympathetic sociological study "Trans Kids" explores the changing social dynamics for families of transgender children and other children who bend or break gender norms. Comprehensive in scope, its interviews and...
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Journal of a Fast Track Life
"Journal of a Fast Track Life" pulls practical reflections from its author’s long and successful career. Charles E. Smith’s career-centered memoir "Journal of a Fast Track Life" is about moving up in journalism and educational...
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The Fifth Woman
The mundane becomes poetic in Nona Caspers’s novel-in-vignettes, "The Fifth Woman". Its atmosphere of grief is established with tight, beautiful prose. An unnamed narrator who’s lost her partner must grapple with her grief while also...
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Flight to the Top of the World
David L. Bristow’s "Flight to the Top of the World" captures an era of wonder in which incredibly deadly endeavors pushed the boundaries of human possibility. The nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century adventures of Walter Wellman are...