Booknotes 5.5

Shroud, by Adrian Tchaikovsky, published 2025, science fiction, 445 pages. I’d heard people say this was basically a better Alien Clay, but I felt the two books were quite different (and I liked both). Interesting ideas as usual. My fear of spoiling anything renders me mute beyond that. Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America, by Adam Cohen, published 2020, history, 498 pages. Good book, though frustrating throughout because of the court’s frequent ...