IRL by Chris Stedman
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Chris Stedman’s fascinating new book addresses one central question: How can we be real online?
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Chicken by Paul Josephson
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A new book chronicles the rise of the chicken as the world’s foremost source of animal meat.
Read MoreThe Deviant's War by Eric Cervini
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A fascinating new book explores the fight for gay rights in pre-Stonewall America.
Read MoreThe Decadent Society by Ross Douthat
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A New York Times columnist describes the Four Horsemen of a society in a downward spiral.
Read MoreAn Internet for the People by Jessa Lingel
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Jessa Lingel’s book argues that the key to fixing the Internet may come from the least likely source imaginable …
Read MoreBoys & Sex by Peggy Orenstein
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An illuminating new study attempts to discover the what, when, and why of how boys and young men think about sex.
Read MoreThe Lives of Lucian Freud by William Feaver
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Nobody alive today is in a better position to write an enormous, definitive biography of this artist.
Read MoreIngenious by Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson
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Observations that have been made in a hundred other places, and a hundred times better.
Read MoreEnd Times by Bryan Walsh
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Written in an engaging style that is by turns inviting and slightly irksome.
Read MoreSavage Appetites by Rachel Monroe
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Monroe ruminates about what might motivate today's women to consume a diet of violent crime stories.
Read MoreKnow-It-All Society by Michael Patrick Lynch
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Lynch encourages us to quest for knowledge by constant inquiry.
Read MoreI Know What I Saw by Linda S. Godfrey
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A delightful, completely involving book, chock-full of things that don’t exist.
Read MoreThe Unnamable Present by Roberto Calasso
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A bright book, its insights glyptic and sharp, but obsessed with the obscurities of the past.
Read MoreGilded Youth: Privilege, Rebellion and the British Public School by James Brooke-Smith
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Gilded Youth is woven through with a sure knack for storytelling and eye for vivifying detail.
Read MoreBored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid by Luke Fernandez and Susan J. Matt
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Are iPhones, iPads, GPS, and the Internet exacerbating negatives and simultaneously eroding the positives?
Read MoreLeft To Their Own Devices by Julie M. Albright
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Young digital natives deserve better than this hyperventilating wad of pseudoscience.
Read MoreZucked by Roger McNamee
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This book traces the author’s personal history and the well-known origin story of Facebook.
Read MoreWatch Me Play: Twitch and the Rise of Game Live Streaming by T.L. Taylor
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A study of Twitch, live streaming, and the far-reaching impact it has on gaming culture and modern media consumption.
Read MoreThe Misinformation Age by Cailin O’Connor & James Owen Weatherall
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For a book of 200 pages, The Misinformation Age covers a great deal of territory.
Read More8 Bit Apocalypse by Alex Rubens
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Video game writer Alex Rubens sets out to chronicle the game’s creation as well as its lasting impact on both gaming and popular culture.
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