Category: Books
Téa Obreht’s New Climate Novel, ‘The Morningside’
Originally from the former Yugoslavia, Obreht now resides in Wyoming. “The Morningside” takes place in…
The Science Behind Talking Parrots – and ‘Texting’ Wolves
Why Animals Talk is published by Viking: Arik Kershenbaum’s account of the wonderfully rich and…
1984 by George Orwell
Upgrade yourself by reading one of the most influential books of the past 100 years,…
The Moral Act is the Free Act
How freedom and morality are intertwined Dana Dragunoiu at the IAI: We think the consequences…
The Mysteries and Quirks of Human Memory
There’s a reason we keep forgetting things, Charan Ranganath -a psychologist and neuroscientist at the…
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life
Martin Tyrrell at the Dublin Review of Books: Eileen O’Shaughnessy married George Orwell in 1936…
Hegel’s World Revolutions
Terry Eagleton at the London Review of Books: The Oxford philosopher Gilbert Ryle claimed he…
One Nation Under Guns
How Gun Culture Distorts America’s History and Threatens Its Democracy. Book By Dominic Erdozain This…
Is the State Here to Stay?
Jonathan S. Blake in Boston Review: In early 2022, the Economist decried “governments’ widespread new fondness for interventionism.”…
Why Truman Capote Spared Katherine Graham
The real reason Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham, Truman Capote’s guest of honor at the…
Remembering Peasants
Jeremy Harte at Literary Review: …peasants will soon be as extinct as the aurochs and…
When Democracy Ails, Magic Thrives
West German witchcraft trials after World War II reveal how political rupture can fuel magical…