The Last Days of Night Graham Moore, Random House 2016, 384 pages The Last Days of Night is a fictionalized account of the true battle that changed the world: Edison v. Westinghouse. As the world sat on the cusp of electrification, a simple patent tied up several great scientific and engineering minds in an epic clash. And the winner would be the person who determined the future of the world's power. This account, though dramatized, provides a wonderful example of how regulation, legislation and intellectual property rights can shape the path of competing disruptive technologies. Bride and Groom Alisa Ganieva, trans. Carol Apollonio, Deep Vellum Publishing 2018, 239 pages "I am not a Chechen," notes Patya, the titular bride, in the first chapter of Bride and Groom .