Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed asks whether removing government actually makes anyone free. On unwritten rules, groupthink, and growing up in India.

Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower, published in 1993 and set in 2025, reads like today's news. A review.

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes tells you everything that will happen on page one. Knowing doesn't help. A personal take on one of the strangest, saddest novels ever written.

Stoner by John Williams is a novel about an ordinary academic life — quietly devastating and one of the most affecting books I've read.

Hyperion by Dan Simmons is one of the best science fiction novels ever written. Vast worlds, dark pilgrimage, and six stories that don't let go.