Laila Lalami

1 month ago | bookriot.com | Laila Lalami |Amal El-Mohtar |Nicole Cuffy |Erica Ezeifedi

Usually, I do a roundup of some of the most notable book club-friendly books coming out each month at the beginning of the month, but I’m switching things up a bit for March. I thought that this roundup could be more reflective than prescient, and it’s a little more convenient for readers since all the books should be out. The books below are ones that I’ve heard all manner of book people talk about, recommend, and review, and they’re perfect for book club conversations.

1 month ago | wamc.org | Laila Lalami

Laila Lalami n conversation with UAlbany Political Science Professor Virginia Eubanks, author of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor (2018) 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 25, 2025 Conversation / Q&A University at Albany Multi-Purpose Room, Campus Center West 1400 Washington Avenue Albany NY 12222 Laila Lalami, major contemporary author, will present her new dystopian sci-fi novel, The Dream Hotel (2025), about a near-future world in which the surveillance...

1 month ago | csmonitor.com | Holly Brickley |Charlotte McConaghy |Laila Lalami |Karen Russell

Deep Cuts, by Holly BrickleyIn the year 2000, an aspiring music writer meets a future indie rock star. Their witty banter about songs sounds like Nora Ephron for Pitchfork readers. Can this woman and man just be friends? Holly Brickley’s lyrical debut novel should rocket up the (bookseller) charts.

1 month ago | thedailynewsonline.com | Marion Winik |Laila Lalami

“He points the scanner at the back of her skull, and the scanner gives a beep, indicating that the neuroprosthetic on Retainee M-7493002 [username: Sara T. Hussein] hasn’t been tampered with overnight.”Where are we? It’s no hotel, that’s for sure. kAmpD {2:=2 {2=2>:’D D:IE9 3@@<[ “%96 sC62> w@E6=[” @A6?D[ 96C AC@E28@?:DE :D 2H2<6?:?8 :? C@@> a_g @7 2 4C66AJ A=246 42==65 |25:D@?[ 2 {@D p?86=6D\2C62 6=6>6?E2CJ D49@@= E92E 92D 366? 4@?G6CE65 7@C FD6 2D 2 “C6E6?E:@?

1 month ago | womensprize.com | Laila Lalami |Jasmine Brame

Longlisted for the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction, judge Amelia Warner says: I love this book that explores the consequences of a society that becomes hyper-reliant on algorithms. It really showed me how technology could be used against us, and it was scary to feel the world created by Laila seems so in reach. I have not stopped thinking about it.’To find out more about the book we spoke to Laila about her inspirations, writing process and favourite books.