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Short reviews of new books by Carlo Rovelli, Nathalie Olah and Noel Fitzpatrick

Ten years ago I had successful open-heart bypass surgery. For several hours, with my heart stopped, I knew only black. “I” was outside of space time, “dead to the world”. When I awoke on the ICU gurney-bed with my mind returned to me, I laughed. I might have been Schrodinger’s cat (1935) in a closed box, dead and alive, a quantum entanglement. Now, in Alice Notley’s The Speak Angel Series we have our first quantum poet, who can be both within the physical/menta...

A selection of recently published books.

The physicist ranges widely — from black holes to Buddhism to climate change — in his new book, “There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness.”

Explore 10 new works related to particle physics and astrophysics, plus a bonus book on math.

BOZEMAN -- A Montana State University professor’s book on the history and science of wheat has been named to the longlist for a national award. “Amber

BOZEMAN -- A Montana State University professor’s book on the history and science of wheat has been named to the longlist for a national award. “Amber

Carlo Rovelli’s Helgoland argues that all reality is relative The author uses relational quantum physics to insist nothing we see and experience actually exists. Even when you understand the science, it’s quite hard to accept that rainbows are not real. You can think you can see one, and the person standing next to you agrees. But you are both being fooled. A rainbow is the pattern of coloured light that you perceive when you look out on a very specific set of atmospheric conditions. Bec...

The Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2021 By PW Staff | Feb 17, 2021 Drawn from the 14,000+ titles in PWs Spring Announcements issue, we asked our reviews editors to pick the most notable books publishing in Spring 2021. Links to reviews are included when available. Fiction The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove, Mar.) - Nguyen follows his Pulitzer-winning The Sympathizer with a sequel about a Vietnamese refugee in 1980s Paris who becomes a drug dealer on his path to a...