The Player of Games · What Did They Read?

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Trumpism Is Backfiring

The Ezra Klein Show, 20 October 2026. The book comes up at 1 hr 18 min in.

Chrystia Freeland recommends this Iain M. Banks novel as darker but carrying light and hope. She pairs it with The Dispossessed as sci-fi she recommends for exploring questions about what it means to be human amid advancing AI and a disordered geopolitical landscape.

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