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A conversation with Dave Eggers on Contrapposto.
The first volume in the Border Trilogy - the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.
"Karmela Padavic-Callaghan's debut book Entangled States explores identity, memory, and uncertainty through physics, blending quantum mechanics with a deeply personal memoir."
Entangled States: A Life According to Quantum Physics is not your typical pop-sci book. Authored by Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, a science journalist and writer who has worked with major magazines like New Scientist, it beautifully blends quantum ...
"A brother and sister make a living conducting Spiritualist hoaxes, but the tables are turned when they discover a real mystery at The Coterie."
As soon as I finished We Could Be Anyone I grabbed my phone to text three friends who love YA fantasy. "You will love this. Trust me," I wrote to each. One asked what it was about: "A brother and sister stage fake hauntings at fancy hotels and then ...
"Lisa Lee explores the Korean American experience through the eyes of Jane, a floundering law student struggling to live up to her parents' expectations. When her brother commits a horrific act, family tensions resurface."
The Korean word "han" is generally defined as a feeling that encapsulates sorrow, resentment, grief, and loss of identity. Han is born from years of systemic suffering—occupation, war, displacement—and seeps into the daily lives of ...
June 24, 2026
This issue of The BookBrowse Review contains reviews and "beyond the book" articles for 14 titles, including Land by Maggie O'Farrell, Earth 7 by Deb Olin Unferth, and Contrapposto by Dave Eggers. We ...
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A woman revisits a Southern summer camp where a counselor's death may not have been an accident.
In 19th-century France, a girl with a magical taste becomes a duc’s poison taster amid nobility and danger.
Love Island meets Lord of the Flies in this must-talk-about-it read, as bingeable as the best reality TV.
"During the Ordnance Survey of the 1800s, Tomás and his son Liam have left their home in Dublin to map a remote peninsula of Ireland. When Tomás has an unsettling encounter in a copse, Liam is unnerved by the change in his father."
On a remote peninsula in 1865, Tomás and his son Liam are surveying the land, as a part of the British Ordnance Survey—an organized effort to map the whole of Ireland. The taciturn Tomás is a trained surveyor, having worked his way up...
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Meet Nadia Davis, loving mom, devoted wife, secret assassin… and she needs a babysitter.
A witch and her ward discover a magical walking house and find the true meaning of home.
"Ann Patchett returns to themes of family and memory in her beautiful, character-driven novel."
Whistler, Ann Patchett's tenth novel (after 2023's Tom Lake) begins with a chance encounter. Fifty-three-year-old Daphne Fuller and her husband, Jonathan, are enjoying a quiet Saturday at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art when ...
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"Oxford philosopher Carissa Véliz explores the ethics of prediction, drawing on historical examples and a magnetic writing style to make the case for caution in the age of AI."
It's difficult to overstate how much of our daily life is shaped by prediction. From the mundane (checking the weather before getting dressed; deciding which route to take to work to avoid traffic) to the massive (credit scores; election polling) ...
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May 24, 2026
Yrsa Daley-Ward’s The Catch (2025), recently released in paperback, has a bizarre and intriguing premise: twin sisters who were separated at a young age, adopted into different families after their mother’s death, diverge in their ...
In this story of intense friendship and grit, two down-and-out teens escape their lives and chase a different future through rock-climbing -- from the New York Times bestselling author of My Absolute ...
Two women on opposite sides of the law team up to bring down gangster Lucky Luciano in this gripping novel.
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Taiwan has an immense, rich history for a land the size of Maryland with a population about the same as Florida. You could spend forever on their relations with China and Japan. “Taiwan Travelogue” by...
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