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Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age
Amanda Hess
★★★★· Published 2025· 272 pages· read 2025
The NYT critic on having a baby inside the machine of fertility apps, ultrasounds, gender reveals, freebirth influencers and mommy marketers. Funny and unsettling in equal measure.
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Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China
Desmond Shum
A wild insider account of how the ultra-rich really operate in China — and how fast it can all turn on you.
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
Sarah Wynn-Williams
A former Facebook insider's account of what she saw at the top, and it's genuinely damning. Reads fast and made me furious.
The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
Kevin Roose
A Brown student spends a semester undercover at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University and comes away with real empathy. Curious and open-hearted, not smug — I loved that about it.