New & Noteworthy, From Nancy Reagan to the God Equation
April 6, 2021
Recent titles of interest:
LADY JOKER, VOL. 1, by Kaoru Takamura. Translated by Allison Markin Powell and Marie Iida. (Soho Crime, $28.95.) Hinging on a kidnapping plot, Takamura’s prismatic heist novel (published in Japan in 1997) offers a broad indictment of capitalist society.
THE GOD EQUATION: The Quest for a Theory of Everything, by Michio Kaku. (Doubleday, $22.) Kaku, a physicist at the City University of New York and a leading proponent of string field theory, traces the effort to merge relativity and quantum theory, uniting the laws that govern the very large and the very small.