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The AI Con: How To Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want

Documenting how “mathy maths” AI applications are produced and idealized as useful and thoughtfully critiquing the social, cultural, and technological systems that structure this so-called intelligence, Bender and Hanna have constructed a thorough, witty, and accessible argument against AI that meets the moment.

Aggregated Discontent: Confessions of the Last Normal Woman

For lovers of personalized essays with a journalistic bent, this essay collection is not one to miss.

Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal

This book glides through the complex, networked entanglements of power that are the infrastructure of our existence in space and time among computational devices designed to foster certain types of belonging.

June Mathis: The Rise and Fall of a Silent Film Visionary

Slater’s thorough research and astute analyses of cinematic themes make this an exemplary biography of a filmmaking pioneer.

Good Girl

Aber’s gritty debut traces a young woman’s existential search for agency and identity in a world where the “good girls” might be those who discard self-reproach and shame.
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The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld

Slater’s fleet, detail-filled narrative brings Rothstein and Shoenfeld to the forefront. This book will entertain readers of American history, Jewish history, and true crime.
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The Backyard Bird Chronicles

A quiet ode to the simple joy of paying attention that will inspire readers to pick up a pair of binoculars.
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Not You Again

Andie and Kit’s second-chance romance follows a slow-burn path that is filled with corrective conversations, healing, and tenderness for each other’s experiences, while the reality-show backdrop provides a contrasting tension.
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James

Winding, intriguing, and acute, this novel is less a retelling than a reinvestigation of Twain’s classic, made possible by Everett’s incisive prose and Hoffman’s absorbing narration.
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