Saviano “knows how to keep his narrative hurtling forward like the scooters his young hoodlums ride at life-endangering speeds,” our reviewer, John Hooper, wrote. (Picador, $18.) The author of “Gomorrah,” a journalistic account of the Neapolitan Mafia, turns to fiction to portray another corner of that world through the story of a vicious teenage gang whose members aspire to be Mafia bosses. PIRANHAS : The Boy Bosses of Naples, by Roberto Saviano, translated by Antony Shugaar. Maybe I’ll only ever enjoy her short stories, ironically, since we share in common a hesitation to embrace the form. (Picador, $18.) Poverty, Eubanks argues, has become increasingly criminalized by the government’s use of data surveillance to harass people who are economically struggling and to deny them social and medical services, relegating them to the “digital poorhouse.” Our reviewer, Liza Featherstone, called the book “riveting (an accomplishment for a book on technology and policy).” This was, I’m ashamed to admit, the first N.K. How Long ’Til Black Future Month has reignited hope that maybe I’ll enjoy some of Jemisin’s other novels. Our reviewer, Laura Miller, praised many of the collection’s cyberpunk thrillers, alien tales and “good old-fashioned science-fiction yarns shot from new angles.”ĪUTOMATING INEQUALITY: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor, by Virginia Eubanks. (Orbit, $16.99.) Some of these short stories by Jemisin, the Book Review’s former Otherworldly columnist, are set in the worlds of previous books others are one-off visits to new uncanny realms. Dropping in quotes from Acker and others as she tells the story of a London-based woman’s anxious adjustment to marriage and to momentous Trump- and Brexit-era political change, Laing writes with “bristling intelligence,” our reviewer, Katie Kitamura, said. (Norton, $14.95.) Kathy, the central character of this slim, gutsy debut novel, is Laing herself, but also Kathy Acker, the iconoclastic writer who died in 1997.

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