Last Alive by David B. Seaburn Book Review
A tender exploration of grief, loneliness, and the healing beauty of everyday life. Our review of Last Alive by David B. Seaburn.
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I Was, Am, Will Be by J.R. Rice – We’ll stop avoiding yesterdays tomorrow
A review of I Was, Am, Will Be by J.R. Rice, an experimental collection following Jonah Tarver through travel, grief, love and self-discovery.
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Coal Dust on Purple Asters by Jeffrey L. Carrier: Hunger and Hardship Pressed Close
Chantal reviews Coal Dust on Purple Asters by Jeffrey L. Carrier, a trilogy of Appalachian stories about family, hardship, resilience, and the pull of home.
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The Black Saint by Daniel kozyrev – Righteous vengeance befalls the wicked
The blind bounty hunter becomes a conduit for God’s wrath. Channeling the misfortune of his circumstances into punishment for the wicked demons who have unleashed themselves upon the world, stealing, killing, and destroying with impunity.
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A Catalog of Small Cruelties by Angela Grey – A woman made unreliable before she speaks.
Violet Holloway emerges from the hold of a coma asking for children who never existed, whose presence still lingers in a house they have never lived in. In a town where secrets are social currency and closed doors can only contain the whispers for so long, a string of unfortunate events become less than coincidental with each new revelation.
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Red Blinders by W.D.Peak – Reject more in favour of less
A favourite post-modern conflict, man versus technology, turned on its head. In a world where clicks and engagement hold more currency than gold, Red Blinders shows us what is at stake, what can go wrong when far reaching oversight sits in the lap of those with the least ethical knowledge on how best to wield it.
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The Plight of Team 27 by Lucas Nava – Adventure, magic and conspiracy
Powerful magic, existing in its purest form, has been entombed within the abandoned ruins constructed by an ancient civilisation. Questions of this otherworldly power have been passed down from generation to generation; how it works, where it’s from, how it’s wielded by those left who are endowed with the blessing of making use of the energetic force, and most puzzling, the disappearance of those who harnessed it best.
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Confessions of a Problem Seeker by Howard Steinberg – When the brain gives way to the heart
The guilt of survival manifests itself in different ways. Growing up in the latter half of the 20th century in Queens, born to Jewish immigrant parents who had narrowly escaped the horrors their loved ones succumbed to, makes for an upbringing riddled with inflictions of unresolved trauma.
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Cognitive Kin: How to Work, Win, and Make Meaning with Agentic AI by Christophe Kolb and Jan Rosen – An exploration of the anatomy of Agentic AI
Agentic AI—still lesser understood, relatively recent, and often difficult to access—is the central focus of this book. It is the very technology many people point to as a harbinger of dystopia whenever the future is debated. Rather than treating these powerful systems as the enemy, this book seeks to show how a partnership between human creativity and artificial intelligence could help propel humanity into a more efficient and unprecedented age of discovery.
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Human Again: In the AI Age by J.D. Macpherson – Artificial Intelligence is what you make it
Through the advent of the age of artificial intelligence, employing intentionality when using this cutting-edge technology to create insightful products will be the only way for anyone to set themselves a cut above the rest in an increasingly automated world.
