I have only read three chapters of Lauren Groff’s new novel, “Matrix” and yet it is already my favorite book of the year. How can this be? I am having an incredible “slow book” experience. To ...

The year “The Matrix” came out — 1999 — already had a very sci-fi sound to it. It was the year Prince had imagined as the run-up to the apocalypse, a premonition that would be echoed in the Y2K ...