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Bombing of Iranian School Highlights Ethical Dilemmas of Machine Vision
ReviewsPublished on NiceBooksReads: Sep 24, 2026Source publication date: Sep 23, 2026

Bombing of Iranian School Highlights Ethical Dilemmas of Machine Vision

A school in Minab, southern Iran, was bombed after being misclassified as a military target due to outdated satellite imaging data. The incident raises urgent ethical questions about the role of machine vision in modern warfare and the consequences of automated image recognition systems. The event underscores the growing tension between technological advancements and their real-world impacts, particularly when human lives are at stake.

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Israeli Airstrikes Poison Farmlands in South Lebanon, Leading to Uninhabitable Conditions
ReviewsPublished on NiceBooksReads: Sep 22, 2026Source publication date: Sep 17, 2026

Israeli Airstrikes Poison Farmlands in South Lebanon, Leading to Uninhabitable Conditions

On February 1, 2026, Israeli military aircraft sprayed agricultural fields in the Lebanese villages of Ras Naqoura and Aita al-Shaab with a fine mist, later identified as glyphosate, a probable carcinogen. The herbicide caused widespread crop failure, with farmers losing their livelihoods as fields turned barren. The incident highlights a growing form of environmental violence known as "uninhabitability," where war transforms land into a place where life cannot resume, even without direct displa

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Matthew Sweet’s new biography reconsiders Barbara Cartland as more than a romance machine
ReviewsPublished on NiceBooksReads: Sep 19, 2026Source publication date: Aug 25, 2026

Matthew Sweet’s new biography reconsiders Barbara Cartland as more than a romance machine

A new biography by Matthew Sweet reexamines Barbara Cartland, highlighting her as a significant cultural figure rather than just a prolific romance writer. The book explores her life, work, and impact, drawing from extensive archival material.

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Eka Kurniawan’s *Man Tiger* Explores Violence, Class, and Social Mobility Through Non-Linear Narrative
ReviewsPublished on NiceBooksReads: Sep 9, 2026Source publication date: Aug 27, 2026

Eka Kurniawan’s *Man Tiger* Explores Violence, Class, and Social Mobility Through Non-Linear Narrative

Eka Kurniawan’s *Man Tiger*, translated by Labodalih Sembiring and published by Verso in 2026, uses a non-linear narrative to explore the social and emotional forces behind a murder, focusing on the intertwined households of Anwar Sadat and Komar bin Syueb. The novel examines how property, domestic labor, and class structures shape individual choices and collective responsibilities. The novel opens with the murder of Anwar Sadat and then reconstructs the events leading up to it, emphasizing the

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Bulgarian Immigrant Slavova Chronicles a Turbulent Path Through Exile, Work, and Cancer in ‘The Wrong Side of Freedom’
ReviewsAdded to NiceBooksReads: Aug 27, 2026Source publication date: Aug 27, 2026

Bulgarian Immigrant Slavova Chronicles a Turbulent Path Through Exile, Work, and Cancer in ‘The Wrong Side of Freedom’

A new memoir follows Slavova from a childhood in Bulgaria to a complicated adult life in Los Angeles, tracing crashes, arrests, reinventions, and illness along the way. The book mixes survival narrative with a candid account of how she moved through hospitality, modeling, acting, and entrepreneurship before a breast cancer diagnosis reshaped her priorities.

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Kimon de Greef’s The Ego Trip tracks a psychedelic hustler and the toad that launched a movement
ReviewsAdded to NiceBooksReads: Aug 26, 2026Source publication date: Aug 17, 2026

Kimon de Greef’s The Ego Trip tracks a psychedelic hustler and the toad that launched a movement

Kimon de Greef’s new book follows Octavio Rettig, a self-styled shaman whose use of Sonoran desert toad venom sits at the intersection of psychedelics, wellness culture and exploitation. The result is a reported account of how a dangerous practice spread from fringe curiosity into a wider commercial movement.

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Colin Thubron’s Passage follows a terminally ill woman on a final journey through Egypt
ReviewsAdded to NiceBooksReads: Aug 26, 2026Source publication date: Aug 26, 2026

Colin Thubron’s Passage follows a terminally ill woman on a final journey through Egypt

Passage, Colin Thubron’s new novella, has been described as a spare and moving work that turns a holiday in Egypt into a reckoning with mortality, memory and missed chances. The book centres on Kathleen, a gravely ill actor who insists on travelling after brain surgery, and on the quiet emotional tensions that follow her through the landscape.

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Two New Spanish-Language Books Recast Suicide as a Literary and Political Question
ReviewsAdded to NiceBooksReads: Aug 26, 2026Source publication date: Aug 19, 2026

Two New Spanish-Language Books Recast Suicide as a Literary and Political Question

Recent English translations of Antonio di Benedetto’s *The Suicides* and Karen Villeda’s *String Theory / Teoría de Cuerdas* approach suicide from very different angles, but both insist that the subject reaches beyond death itself and into the question of how—and why—people continue living. Together, they also illuminate masculinity, family memory, translation, and violence in Latin American writing.

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Anita Lasker-Wallfisch memoir recounts survival through Auschwitz and a postwar life in music
ReviewsAdded to NiceBooksReads: Aug 26, 2026Source publication date: Aug 26, 2026

Anita Lasker-Wallfisch memoir recounts survival through Auschwitz and a postwar life in music

Cellist and Holocaust survivor Anita Lasker-Wallfisch looks back on her family’s failed efforts to leave Germany, her deportation to Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, and the unlikely role music played in her survival. The memoir also follows her eventual move to Britain and her long career there.

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Kirkus spotlights a bruising Texas antihero in 'Daytona Teddy Riggs'
ReviewsAdded to NiceBooksReads: Aug 26, 2026Source publication date: Aug 26, 2026

Kirkus spotlights a bruising Texas antihero in 'Daytona Teddy Riggs'

A new debut novel set in 1996 Gulf Coast Texas follows a former high school football standout whose attempt to become a regional strongman turns into a comic, self-destructive spiral. Kirkus describes the book as part satire and part wake-up call, with enough empathy to keep readers invested in its unruly hero.

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Merryl Goldberg’s 1985 Soviet Tour Shows How a Klezmer Quartet Used Music to Reach Refuseniks
ReviewsAdded to NiceBooksReads: Aug 26, 2026Source publication date: Aug 26, 2026

Merryl Goldberg’s 1985 Soviet Tour Shows How a Klezmer Quartet Used Music to Reach Refuseniks

Merryl Goldberg’s account of a 1985 trip to the Soviet Union follows a Klezmer Conservatory Band quartet that used performances, visits, and a coded musical system to contact refuseniks while trying to stay ahead of the KGB. The book also shows how that improvised cipher later drew interest from the cybersecurity community.

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‘Tessa’s Landing’ Follows a Famine-Era Irish Immigrant to New York in a Tender Historical Novel
ReviewsAdded to NiceBooksReads: Aug 26, 2026Source publication date: Aug 26, 2026

‘Tessa’s Landing’ Follows a Famine-Era Irish Immigrant to New York in a Tender Historical Novel

Brady’s historical novel tracks 16-year-old Tessa O’Melia from Achill Island to Manhattan during the Great Famine, tracing loss, survival, and reinvention across the Atlantic. The book is praised for its research and warmth, though its treatment of hardship is described as softer than the subject might demand.

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Emmeline Duncan Sends Bailey Briggs Into a Christmas-Season Murder in Eylan Hollow
ReviewsAdded to NiceBooksReads: Aug 26, 2026Source publication date: Aug 26, 2026

Emmeline Duncan Sends Bailey Briggs Into a Christmas-Season Murder in Eylan Hollow

A new Bailey Briggs cozy mystery places an Oregon bookseller at the center of a death inside an escape room tied to her town’s hidden tunnel system. The holiday-set novel blends family revelations, local history and a crowded suspect list around bookshop owner Bailey Briggs.

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Charlotte Higgins’s Ukrainian Lessons traces how art survives amid war
ReviewsAdded to NiceBooksReads: Aug 26, 2026Source publication date: Aug 18, 2026

Charlotte Higgins’s Ukrainian Lessons traces how art survives amid war

In a book on creativity under bombardment, Charlotte Higgins follows Ukrainian artists, poets and filmmakers as they adapt to invasion, loss and military service. Her account suggests that wartime culture is not a luxury but part of how Ukraine remembers, resists and endures.

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Luke Harding’s new account links Trump’s return to a US betrayal of Ukraine
ReviewsAdded to NiceBooksReads: Aug 26, 2026Source publication date: Aug 24, 2026

Luke Harding’s new account links Trump’s return to a US betrayal of Ukraine

The Guardian’s Luke Harding sets out a bleak portrait of American misreading of Vladimir Putin, arguing that Donald Trump’s second presidency has tipped Washington from caution into outright abandonment of Ukraine. The book’s force, a review argues, lies in its reporting from bombarded Ukrainian cities and its wider warning about what happens when diplomacy meets delusion.

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