In her 1998 verse novel, Autobiography of Red, 2026 Nobel winner Anne Carson retells an ancient Greek myth “in language any poet would kill for.”

Mike Flanagan’s Carrie miniseries, an updated take on Stephen King’s 1974 novel, has “things to say about the fathomless potential for good and ill in the teenage heart.”

The New Dark Ages by James Marriott is a “brisk, bracing antidote” to the literacy crisis that considers what’s at stake when we let go of the written word.

Didier Eribon’s “virtuosic memoir,” Returning to Reims, is a profound meditation on the shifting political allegiances of the French working class.

Shortlisted for this year’s Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, Andrea Wulf’s The Traveler is “a fascinating book about a fascinating life” lived by 18th-century naturalist George Forster.

Tech journalist Kevin Roose offers “clear-eyed, deeply reported, and brisk” coverage of Silicon Valley’s breakneck AGI race in The AGI Chronicles.