How To Stay Sustainable With Producing Paper Books? Examining environmentally friendly book printing demonstrates the significant influence the publishing industry has on the environment. Offices consume a lot of paper—more…
The universe of The Fragile Threads of Power is the same as that of the Darker qShade of Magic series, and fans will be able to get back there as…
Dragons Love Tacos Summary Among all the picture books ever created, this is among my favorites! FOR WHAT ENDANG? It features tacos and cute, humorous dragons—not the menacing type. Nobody…
In 1999, David Papineau wrote for the Book Review about “Flu,” Gina Kolata’s book about the 1918 influenza pandemic and the hunt for the virus that caused it. Could it come…
Gold Ba dies in the night, prompting them to seek two silver dollars. Sam’s tapping an angry beat come morning, but Lucy, before they go, feels a need to speak. Silence weighs…
oneHere there be dragons Today, the magnet on her fridge proves prophetic: Even creatures of habit can sometimes be forgetful. You said it, Antonia agrees. She has just poured orange juice into…
AFTERLIFE By Julia Alvarez One morning, there is a knock at Antonia Vega’s door. Recently retired and widowed, she cautiously checks the peephole before opening to find Mario, one of the…
RADICAL UNCERTAINTY Decision-Making Beyond the Numbers By John Kay and Mervyn King 384 pp. Norton. $30. The way experts understand uncertainty is fundamentally and unhappily disconnected from the way normal people do. The…
BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE, by Trent Dalton. (HarperPerennial, 464 pp., $16.99.) A mysterious voice on the red phone in his family’s secret escape room adds a dose of magical realism to…
If you’ve finished tearing through all seven episodes of the hit show “Tiger King” and you’re looking for more, we’ve got some reading suggestions. Image ‘Geek Love,’ by Katherine Dunn In Dunn’s novel…
MALIA, 1995Honoka‘s When I close my eyes we’re all still alive and it becomes obvious then what the gods want from us. The myth people tell about us might start on…
August flew back to Michigan for Thanksgiving. It was his first time on an airplane, and even though he tried to be nonchalant about it, he held his breath during…
