Review: Playground, by Richard Powers
Powers writes the ocean the way other novelists write childhood. A review of Playground, a novel about coral reefs, computation, and what we drown.
Category: Reviews
New books, considered at essay length when they earn it.
Review: Orbital, by Samantha Harvey
Sixteen sunrises a day and nothing happens, gloriously. On Samantha Harvey’s slim novel of six astronauts and one blue planet.
Review: The MANIAC, by Benjamin Labatut
Labatut’s von Neumann is a man who mistook the universe for a problem set. A review of a novel that is not quite a novel, about a mind that was not quite a comfort.