Often marginalized by critics during his life, M.C. Escher (1898-1972) is now famous for woodcuts and lithographs that roam the wild frontier of mathematics: images of rooms that warp and buckle, ...
In an era in which we’ve been told that mass data-mining and plagiarism will lead to a magical artificial intelligence that will solve all the great mysteries of life, “The Book of Records” is a ...
The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien intricately blends historical and speculative fiction to tackle contemporary global issues. It explores migration, the refugee crisis, identity politics and ...
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It took author Madeleine Thien nearly a decade to write her new novel The Book of Records. In the story, 7-year-old Lina and her father take refuge at an imagined place called the Sea. There, ...
Madeleine Thien’s inventive and ambitious fourth novel, “The Book of Records,” opens with maximum intrigue. A seven-year-old Chinese girl named Lina disembarks from a sea vessel with her father to ...
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