‘Ends Of The Earth,’ By Neil Shubin — Review
A gripping story of polar exploration written by a scientist who has devoted his entire career to identifying…
Networks of progress: On Carl Benedikt Frey’s ‘How Progress Ends’
Soren Kierkegaard once remarked that life is “lived forwards but understood backwards.” Carl Benedikt Frey, in “How Progress…
‘Painter’s Rebellion’: On Gündüz Vassaf’s call to resist silent conformity
Some books invite you into quiet contemplation and some books drag you, sometimes unwillingly, into the turbulence of…
Patricia Lockwood’s Book Is a Pleasant Fever Dream
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photo: Riverhead Books One solution for representing the internet-augmented discontinuity of contemporary life is the fragment…
Life Writing
Jonathan Lethem is concerned with time. Time as an element of narrative, yes: His new book, A Different…
Ian McEwan is back — with a literary apocalypse
This section is dense and tangled, far from the suspenseful action sequences that McEwan does better than any…
Murata Sayaka’s “World 99”: What It Means to Be Human
Murata Sayaka’s latest novel World 99, published in Japan in 2025, is set in a society disrupted by…
The Unity Books children’s book review roundup for spring
The booksellers of Unity Books Auckland and Wellington review a handful of children’s books sure to delight and…
Review: Elizabeth Knox’s Kings of This World is both dangerous and dreamy
Shanti Mathias reads the latest young adult novel from Elizabeth Knox. Kings of This World opens dramatically: a…
September 9, 2025 – Locus Online
Visit our bookshop.org page to purchase this week’s new books and support your local bookstore. And us!…
Toni Jordan’s engrossing page-turning saga
Tenderfoot – quick links Tenderfoot, Toni Jordan’s eighth novel, takes place in the suburban Brisbane of Joh Bjelke-Petersen…