A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
$11.60Pollan’s real genius—the word is not too strong—remains intact. That is his uncanny ability to scent the direction in which the culture is headed. He did it with food and psychedelics, and now, though A World Appears focuses on AI only intermittently, he has done it again.” —Charles Finch, The Atlantic
Cool Machine: A Novel (The Harlem Trilogy)
$9.801981. New York City is beginning to emerge from financial ruin and decline, energized by rampant real estate development and a Wall Street unchained by Reagan-era predatory capitalism
Country People: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel
$14.60Charming . . . a prescription for summer amusement that takes immediate effect . . . There’s so much fine, freewheeling observation and pillowy erudition here, it’s tempting just to sink in
Whistler: A Novel
$12.40Ann Patchett’s new novel is a rare phenomenon in contemporary fiction: a novel both majestic and intimate, original and masterful in its structure, crystalline in its prose, revelatory in its insights, utterly devastating yet ultimately uplifting in its emotional impact. . . . I think it is her best novel yet