The People's Hospital by Ricardo Nuila
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An examination of the American healthcare system.
Read MorePandemic Politics by Gadarian, Goodman, and Pepinsky
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A highly detailed new history of the deadly combination of COVID-19 and politics.
Read MoreDark Persuasion by Joel Dimsdale
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A new book looks at the modern history of mass delusions.
Read MoreAmerican Serial Killers: The Epidemic Years, 1950-2000 by Peter Vronsky
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A new history of the unprecedented surge in serial killers in the second half of the 20th century.
Read MoreStrange Bedfellows by Ina Park
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Everything you wanted to know about sexually transmitted infections but were perhaps embarrassed to ask!
Read MoreThe Nature of Fear by Daniel Blumstein
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A new study looks at the extent - and the unexpected benefits - of fear in the animal kingdom.
Read MoreI You We Them by Dan Gretton
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A big, involving new book ventures into the world of the people who authorize vast murders by paperwork, without ever dirtying their hands.
Read MoreHow Attention Works by Stefan Van Der Stigchel
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This study covers an enormous amount of research in only a little more than 100 pages.
Read MoreA Supernatural War by Owen Davies
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The author charts subtle changes about the ways humans charge their world with supernatural relevances.
Read MoreSupernatural: Death, Meaning, and the Power of the Invisible World by Clay Routledge
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Is a belief in the supernatural because of an evolutionarily-ingrained need to create meaning?
Read MoreEnlightenment Now by Steven Pinker
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An argument for a return to reason and science so humanity can continue to flourish.
Read MoreThe Divine Mind by Michael Gellert
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Jungian analyst Michael Gellert, in his new book The Divine Mind: Exploring the Psychological History of God's Inner Journey, sifts through the Old Testament, the Talmud, the New Testament, the Koran, and the Hadith in order to trace the mental and moral growth of the central character, the God of the three Abrahamic religions. The goal of The Divine Mind is to make some sense out of the figure Richard Dawkins refers to as “the most unpleasant character in all fiction”; in these pages, Gellert is asking the same question Scriptural scholars have asked all the way back to Saint Augustine and that believers have been asking in one phrasing or another since Adam and Eve were bustled out of the Garden of Eden: “What is it with this Guy?”
Read MoreA Tiny and Swattable Mind
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In Thornton Wilder’s powerful and subversive masterpiece Our Town, Mrs. Gibbs of provincial little Grover’s Corners holds forth on the wider world: “It seems to me,” she says, “once in your life, before you die, you ought to see a country where they don‘t speak any English and they don‘t even want to.” The line is delivered with just the slightest undertone of incredulity, of disbelief that such a place could really exist.
If she could get past the dozens of entirely spurious mathematical equations and the apparently requisite acid-trip visuals, Mrs. Gibbs would feel right at home in Douglas Hofstadter’s new book, I Am a Strange Loop. Certainly the book’s tone of unquestioning self-satisfaction would help her along.