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You just can’t kill Lisbeth Salander

The latest Girl with the Dragon Tattoo book is unabashedly a piece of licensed, commissioned professional fan-fiction. Which kind of makes it a comic book.

Tasha Robinson
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Josh Dzieza
The OKCupid data blog is back, in book form

The dating site founder’s new book is a love letter to big data

Molly Osberg
Being cynical: Julian Assange, Eric Schmidt, and the year’s weirdest book

In ‘The New Digital Age’ we learn what happens when Google stops being polite and starts getting real

Joseph L. Flatley
‘Who Owns The Future?’ Jaron Lanier thinks Google and the government should pay for your data

How the web killed the middle class and what’s coming next

R. U. Sirius
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Brendan Murphy
Otaku anthropology: exploring Japan’s unique subculture

With his study of cosplayers, collectors, and maid cafes, Patrick Galbraith wants you to know that otaku isn’t just Japanese for “nerd.”

Jesse Hicks
They make us this way: Paolo Bacigalupi’s ‘The Drowned Cities’

The author returns to the ecological apocalypse

Adi Robertson
‘Insanely Simple’: an oral history of Apple’s rebirth

Ken Segall traces Apple’s rebirth in the late 90s through the lens of a slightly overwrought business book.

Dieter Bohn