Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement. —Andre Agassi ou may have heard that something is wrong with American men. They are lonely. Their lifespans are shortening. They’re not going to college. Worst of all, …
Our protagonist is Peter Els, a 70-year- old composer, of some obscure renown among the cognoscenti. One day before the events of the novel’s present-day timeline unfold, he reads about the DIY biology movement – people tinkering with DNA in their garages – and orders the appropriate equipment himself from the internet
could tell it was getting bad when tech guys started talking about their “stacks.” They had sleep stacks, workout stacks, nutrition stacks, self-improvement stacks . . . if you could load up a bunch of helpful tasks or goals in a way that felt connecte…
ife can feel overwhelming when you’re a teenager. Your physique is changing dramatically while at the same time your emotions are being bombarded by surging hormones and your brain is undergoing its last big developmental phase, a combination that can …
The Strangler Vine is set in India in 1837, when large areas of the country were ruled by the British East India Company.
ónica Ojeda writes like the sentences are escaping from the fractured earth after disaster, as if her narrative is informed by an intertwined set of truths in logical relation that selectively burst forth into consciousness, as if the fragile surface o…
