If Then, Jill LeporeA brilliant, revelatory account of the Cold War a origins of the data mad, algorithmic twenty first century, from the author of the acclaimed international best seller These Trutis. The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics,a and disordered knowledge decades before Facebook, Google, Amazon and Cambridge Analytica. Borrowing methods of psychological warfare,

each pivoting on a kiss that is no mere kiss

No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone

One thing is for certain

It reminds us all that

Jennifer Egan illuminates the difficulties of shaping an inner life in a culture preoccupied with surfaces and asks whether 'truth' can have any meaning in an era when reality itself has become a style

Anthology of winning entries to the 2020 writing contest

others who may have been strangers

or a little pick-me-up

Whit and Wisty have established themselves as leaders of the Resistance

Instantly relatable

Wild Swims is a master class in concision and restraint

powerful prose