Andrew Ladd is the book reviews editor for the Ploughshares blog. His work has also appeared or is forthcoming in Apalachee Review, Alternet, PANK's "This Modern Writer" series, DRAFT Magazine and the Good Men Project. He is putting the finishing touches on his first novel.
In The Postmortal, first-time novelist Drew Magary shows us a world where humans no longer age—with the goal, it seems, of making us grateful that we do.