In “The Singularity Is Nearer,” the futurist Ray Kurzweil reckons with a world dominated by artificial intelligence (good) and his own mortality (bad).
Jonas Hassen Khemiri plays with time, belonging and his own insecurities in a big, impressive novel that revolves around a trio of magnetic Swedish women.
In a group portrait of America’s first female astronauts, Loren Grush details the basics of training and the challenges of sexism without lionizing her heroines.