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The Information by James Gleick

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood is a book by science history writer James Gleick, published in March …

Otherlands by Thomas Halliday

What would it be like to experience the ancient landscapes of the past as we experience the reality of nature …

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set …

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in …

Blues People by Amiri Baraka, Leroi Jones

"A must for all who would more knowledgeably appreciate and better comprehend America's most popular music." — Langston Hughes

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Cyclonopedia by Reza Negarestani

Cyclonopedia is theoretical-fiction novel by Iranian philosopher and writer Reza Negarestani. Hailed by novelists, philosophers and cinematographers, Negarestani’s work is …

Crossings by Alex Landragin

S. by J. J. Abrams

"A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal …

The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan

A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel by Amor Towles

When, in 1922, thirty-year-old Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, he is sentenced to …

Ways of Being by James Bridle

What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something unique to humans, or shared with other beings--beings of flesh, …