Category: Books
A Road Atlas for Self-Reckoning
Erik Gleibermann in LA Review of Books (LRB): HUMAN BEINGS ARE autobiographers by nature. Whether…
Racism, Jazz, and James Baldwin’s “Sonny Blues”
by Tom Jenks at OUP Blog: Reading is good; rereading is better. I can’t say…
Reenvisioning Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution in Islam
Arvind Dilawar in the Los Angeles Review of Books: AFTER THE END of the United…
Evolution’s New Narrative: Life is a Decentralized, Horizontal Network, Not Merely a Centralized, Hierarchical Tree
David P. Mindell at Reason: The conventional narrative for evolution is outdated. I am not…
Brothers in Arms or Just Good Friends?
by Michael Ignatieff at Literary Review: Nearly three quarters of the world’s population, according to…
Why Animals Talk: The New Science of Animal Communication
By Arik Kershenbaum at Literary Review: If a cow said, ‘Don’t eat me’, we wouldn’t….
The Ecology of Collective Behavior
Leon Vlieger at The Inquisitive Biologist: This is the third of a trio of reviews…
Economics for the Age of TikTok
Rachel Dec in LA Review of Books: IN 2022, AS THE labor market thrived, a…
A Gentleman in Moscow Has a Little Bit of Everything
Bill Gates in Gates Notes: Melinda and I sometimes read the same book at the same…
Tackling the Riddle of Free Will
Emily Cataneo in Undark: IT’S 1922. You’re a scientist presented with a hundred youths who, you’re told,…
Philosophy Was Once Alive
Pranay Sanklecha at Aeon: ‘Why did you decide to study philosophy?’ asked the Harvard professor,…
The 10 Best Books of the 21st Century
by Abbas Raza at 3 Quarks Daily: The following writers each picked 10 books for…