Picture the worst day of your life — now imagine it televised to a few trillion strangers across the galaxy, with a talking cat as your co-star and a “helpful” AI narrator scoring your every scream. That’s the premise Matt Dinniman commits to without blinking in Dungeon Crawler Carl, and
Some novels ask you to suspend disbelief about dragons or spaceships. Theo of Golden asks something harder: that a stranger’s kindness might be real, unearned, and enough to change a town. One spring morning, a quiet, unassuming man named Theo walks into the small Southern city of Golden and takes
WASHINGTON — U.S. officials have revised a dramatic claim made earlier this week about a sweeping Chinese cyber-espionage campaign, now saying that federal agencies identified as victims of the operation were “targeted” rather than definitively “hacked.” The walk-back follows a joint disclosure by the FBI, the National Security Agency and
Few memoirs arrive with as much built-in controversy as “Assata: An Autobiography,” and few authors have lived a life that makes the controversy almost beside the point. First published in 1987 and written from political asylum in Cuba, the book has found a new generation of readers this year following
WASHINGTON — Six months after the United States entered its war with Iran, the families of the troops fighting it say the emotional and financial toll is compounding, with little sign of relief. A Blue Star Families poll of roughly 200 active-duty military households in early March found that 81%
Some readers pull a tarot card for fun. Mikaela Broussard pulls one and sees her own murder. That’s the jolt that opens Jasmine Smith’s debut novel “Death Card,” a dark contemporary fantasy that turns a routine reading at a family occult shop into the first domino in a story about
Every wedding has an uninvited guest problem, but rarely is that guest the whole point of the story. Alison Espach’s “The Wedding People” opens with Phoebe Stone checking into Newport, Rhode Island’s grand Cornwall Inn alone, in a green dress and gold heels, for a weekend she never intended to
Imagine being illegal before you’ve said your first word. That’s the premise Trevor Noah opens with in “Born a Crime,” a memoir that turns a legal technicality of apartheid South Africa into one of the most disarming coming-of-age stories published this decade. Noah, born to a Black Xhosa mother and
Some accidents never really end. They just change shape, resurfacing decades later in a museum hallway, a stray comment, a name nobody has said out loud in years. That is the quiet, devastating engine of “Whistler,” Ann Patchett’s latest novel about a family that has spent forty-five years not talking
Imagine losing your Wi-Fi, your electricity, and your century, all in the space of a single night’s sleep. That is the premise animating “Yesteryear,” Caro Claire Burke’s darkly funny debut, which drops a modern tradwife influencer into the actual 1800s and dares her to survive her own brand. Natalie Heller
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