Navid Sinaki

Aug 30, 2024 | shelf-awareness.com | Navid Sinaki |Eunice Hong |Daniel Olivas |Bryn Turnbull

We're pleased to say that the books reviewed in this week's issue are likely to leave a mark, especially Bill Schutt's fresh survey of the animal kingdom, Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans, which is positively a "treasure trove of... facts" about the eating habits of vampire bats, which frogs have teeth, and more.

Aug 13, 2024 | lithub.com | Navid Sinaki

My mom insisted we were the descendants of Scheherazade, the storyteller from 1,001 Arabian Nights. It was something she could never prove, especially since we’d left Iran when I was one. I grew up in a California suburb with street light banners touting which high school kids enlisted in the armed forces. The portraits aged. The city updated the headshots annually, citizens propped up in their military drag watching the rest of us outside of bargain movie theaters and Barnes and Noble.

Jul 3, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Chuck Palahniuk |Alejandro Puyana |Yuri Herrera |Navid Sinaki

Chuck Palahniuk. Simon & Schuster, $26.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-6680-2144-6In the latest bracing satire from Palahniuk (Fight Club), a wave of high school suicides roils the country. The narrative centers on Samantha Deel, a brilliant and resourceful teenager who’s hit hard by the suicide of her boyfriend, Garson. When her excellent academic record attracts the notice of an organization called Greener Pastures, she agrees to enter its mysterious program.