THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features Jacob Weisberg on deep fake news, Elaine Blair on istoriya feminisma, Eric Foner on the underground railroad at sea, Andrew Katzenstein on Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket, Suzanne Schneider on Friedrich Hayek’s bastard children, Nicole Rudick on Ben Shahn’s compassion, Jay Neugeboren on the working homeless, Vicente L. Rafael on an American massacre in the Philippines, Ariel Dorfman on Pinochet’s favorite Nazi, David Cole on Trump’s summary killings in international waters, a poem by Victoria Chang, and much more.

Algorithm Nation

Fights about digital filtering tools have turned more and more bitter. That’s because of their extraordinary power to shape both political opinion and mass culture.

Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality by Renée DiResta

Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac

Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka

Equality Without Feminism?

The Soviet Union’s ambitious program of gender equality could never be separated from its abuses of power.

Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy by Julia Ioffe

Shadow Ticket is brisker than Thomas Pynchon’s other work, but it’s full of his usual vaudevillian sensibility, and it addresses his favorite theme: how to live freely under powerful systems of control.

Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon