Drew Foster reviews Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares’ sobering new nonfiction work on artificial superintelligence and the existential choices facing humanity.

Drew Foster reviews Gary Shteyngart’s newest novel, “Vera, or Faith,” a humorous, cutting depiction of a near-future, totalitarian-leaning America observed through the eyes of a precocious youngster trying to make sense of a rapidly changing society.

Review of the 1958 classic "The Polynesian Family System in Kaʻū, Hawaiʻi." This essential work by E.S. Craighill Handy and Mary Kawena Pukui provides a profound window into ancestral Hawaiian worldviews and traditional customs of the Kaʻū district.

Percival Everett's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "James," reimagines Huckleberry Finn from the slave's perspective. It explores language as power and survival, though the reviewer questions the ending's violence.

This review of Suzanne Collins's prequel, "Sunrise on the Reaping," follows Haymitch Abernathy's Hunger Games victory. It praises the social commentary but notes a lack of suspense and thin characterization.