Hacker News with Generative AI: Book Reviews

Book Review: On the Edge, Nate Silver (mattglassman.substack.com)
Hilary Mantel Reviews “A Life of One's Own/An Experiment in Leisure” (1986) (literaryreview.co.uk)
Kill It With Fire: dealing with legacy systems. (book review) (usenix.org)
'Written in Water' Review: What Makes a Classic? (wsj.com)
The NYT book review is everything book criticism shouldn't be (currentaffairs.org)
A journey into Kindle AI slop hell (maxread.substack.com)
Review: The Variational Principles of Mechanics (thepsmiths.com)
Why Surrealism Matters: Book review (the-tls.co.uk)
"Consider Phlebas" Book Review (davidgorski.substack.com)
'The Invention of Prehistory' Review: Facing Deep Time (wsj.com)