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What to read this weekend: A house haunted by AI and the mysterious murder of a superhero

New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention.

An agoraphobic engineer named Henry spends his days locked away in his extremely smart home building freaky little robots, including one that looks like a magician and rides around on a tiny bike. But for those who do want a deeper look into how it all transpired, journalists Kate Conger and Ryan Mac have dredged up a ton of previously unreported information in their book Character Limit, which pulls from interviews with insiders and internal recordings from the rooms where it all went down to give us the full story of Twitter’s takeover. Moore, born with spina bifida, rose to fame as the genius creator of advanced exoskeleton-style mobility aids, and he wore a full-body armored version of one of these suits while operating as the vigilante hero, Caliburn.

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