Claude Wilkinson’s latest collection seamlessly weaves together nature, art, myth, and personal history into reflections on this life and the one to come. Review by Tessa Carman

Dinosaur enthusiasts will find much to enjoy in Michael J. Benton’s new guide, but the perfect book on dinosaurs has yet to be written. Review by Collin Slowey

Andrew McNabb’s two most recent books work differently to address the same questions about how to live as a believer and a parent and an artist. Review by Katy Carl

The latest of the Frank Bascombe novels turns explicitly to a question its predecessors have been considering for forty years. Review by Jeff Reimer

Wiman’s latest resists our tendency to idolize its writer, embracing instead a lively debate both with others and with his own ideas. Review by Whitney Rio-Ross

A collection of essays by writers who play video games resonates both as a cultural commentary and as a means of calling on shared experience. Review by Sara Holston

This look at the history of how data assumed its place of massive world importance is instructive, but its vision for an alternative to data’s role is fairly thin. Review by Jake Casale

Scorsese’s latest asks us to stop and look not just at the horrible crimes it depicts, but at what those crimes really cost. Review by Joseph Collum

Jeanne Murray Walker’s new memoir illustrates both the dangers and the ultimate rewards of exchanging certainty for faith. Review by Sarah Clark

The creator of Calvin & Hobbes has written a much darker book–but the unknown doesn’t have to bring us only to terror or indifference. There is another way. Review by Ali Holcomb