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Author: Anna Wiener Unsparing and incisive, Uncanny Valley is a cautionary tale, and a revelatory interrogation of a world reckoning with consequences its unwitting designers are only beginning to understand. In her debut memoir, Anna Wiener recounts how, at age 25, she abandoned her drab job at a New York literary agency for a high-paying customer support role at a Silicon Valley startup. “At its heart, it is a feminist coming of age tale and instead of telling the sugar-coated version of events she courageously tells it exactly how it was. She calls for more women to be employed in these ...

Follow us on Twitter 'I Never Met a Straight Line I Didn't Like' by Mary Gaudin and Matthew Arnold. Photo / Supplied What The Viva Team Are Reading This Summer Books to buy, borrow and be lost in Wednesday Dec. 23, 2020 "I'm looking forward to sitting down with I Never Met a Straight Line I Didn't Like, the second book from Mary Gaudin and Matthew Arnold (and featured in Viva Volume Two). A collector’s tome in the making, it documents the modern architectural movement that rippled through Christchurch in the 1960s, with 12 incredible homes from the peri...

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A book review rarely leads to a segment on The 11th Hour with Brian Williams, but that’s what happened to Nate Marshall last month. I love how he combines a traditional review with a personal essay—a hybrid form that has become my favorite subgenre of criticism. “The presidential memoir so often falls flat because it works against the strengths of the memoir form. Rather than take a slice of one’s life to lay bare and come to a revelation about the self or the world, the presidential memoir seeks to take the sum of a life to defend one’s actions. These sorts of memoirs are an attem...

Print If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Even under quarantine, it isn’t always possible to get through all the books you want to read — not with so much Zoom schooling and doom-scrolling to do. As the holidays start creeping up and leisure time starts to stretch, it’s the perfect time to give the right person just the right book, or five or 10. Herewith, a carefully curated list of the most engaging, funniest and most urgent work of the year.