16 stories tagged book-review, newest first.
47 points by aray07 | 20 comments
Blog post by Murat Demirbas reflecting on Ananyo Bhattacharya's biography of John von Neumann, focusing on his talent for abstraction across math, physics, economics, and computing.
8 points by prismatic | 1 comments
A Hedgehog Review book review essay by Sam Gee on the religious faith of poet Alfred Tennyson, from the Summer 2026 issue.
6 points by feltsense | 1 comments
A London Review of Books essay by Ian Penman about the novelist and composer Anthony Burgess.
31 points by Thevet | 3 comments
London Review of Books essay by Edmund Gordon reviewing William Golding: The Faber Letters, edited by Tim Kendall.
7 points by Thevet | 0 comments
Literary Review piece by Simon Bradley reviewing Will Millard's book Mapping Britain, a history of Britain told through the Ordnance Survey archives.
7 points by samclemens | 2 comments
A New York Review essay by Jonathan Lethem on the reissue of Wilfrid Sheed's 1966 novel Office Politics and the popularity of literary reprints.
77 points by pepys | 78 comments
History Today review of Peter Sahlins' book 'Neanderthals Among Us: The Making of a Prehistoric Human'.
55 points by paimapi | 50 comments
American Prospect review by Hal Singer of Lindsay Owens's book on how corporations use dynamic pricing and other tactics to maximize profits at consumers' expense.
39 points by pepys | 12 comments
A New Yorker critical essay by Louis Menand on the history of punctuation and how it shapes reading, including what changes when machines write sentences.
370 points by dxs | 203 comments
A Cool Tools "Book Freak" post excerpting P.T. Barnum's The Art of Money Getting and its golden rules for making money.
376 points by keiferski | 327 comments
A Substack post by James Bareham reflecting on reading William Gibson's 1984 cyberpunk novel Neuromancer for the first time in 2025.
907 points by Aldipower | 473 comments
Cory Doctorow's Pluralistic post about Sarah Wynn-Williams' Facebook memoir "Careless People" and Meta's attempts to suppress it.
503 points by omkar-foss | 215 comments
David A. Wheeler's 2004 review of David J. Agans' book "Debugging: The 9 Indispensable Rules," summarizing each rule and its sub-rules.
370 points by Brajeshwar | 355 comments
Bill Gates reviews Sal Khan's book Brave New Words, which describes how AI could transform classroom education.
534 points by wglb | 130 comments
Blog post recounting the book Newton and the Counterfeiter, about Isaac Newton's career as Warden of the Mint hunting counterfeiters.
334 points by _sJiff | 202 comments
A blog post by Stanislav Myachenkov reviewing Tanya Reilly's book "The Staff Engineer's Path," a guide for individual contributors growing into staff roles.