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

Khaled Anatolios’s expansive account of deification seeks to unify the various models of salvation under the banner of the Christian’s union with God. Review by Caleb Knox

Reading children’s books as adults reminds us that, however comforting the idea of returning to our past, we must keep moving forward. Review by Sara Holston

Henry James’s first novel explores the choices all artists must make, between the pursuit of truth and beauty and the surrender to self-idolization. Review by Katy Carl

The second entry in Morgan Meis’s Three Paintings trilogy finds a master writer pushing past his own limits under the eye of that which is beyond us all.