Book Reviews Archives
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Jesse Bering, Why Is the Peni…
Jesse Bering is sort of the Michael Pollan of boners; he’s read up,… more »
Susan Cain, Quiet
A rallying call for introverts everywhere to…be quiet America, argu… more »
Michael Lewis , Boomerang: Tr…
How the 2008 global financial crisis looked in five very different places… more »
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fa…
A fascinating (and humiliating) dissection of our species’ psycholo… more »
Joshua Foer, Moonwalking With…
Mingling science writing with picaresque memoir and daubs of history Give… more »
James Gleick, The Information…
A grand history of the world’s most precious commodity Amidst our e… more »
Brian Greene, The Hidden Real…
Greene reports, you decide Physicist Brian Greene is without a doubt our … more »
Jane Smiley, The Man Who Inve…
A phenomenally written account of the forgotten inventor of the most impo… more »
Sam Harris (2), The Moral Lan…
Sam Harris places the values we take to be most subjective into a new sci… more »
Stephen Hawking, The Grand De…
An amazing book of theories that might just portend the end of physics Wh… more »
Tom Bissell, Extra Lives…
A grown-up video game book for grown-up gamers The 27th birthday of the o… more »
Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal …
Themes of race, class and the role of ethics in science at a seat-edger p… more »
Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a G…
An argument that people have altered their expectations to sync with tech… more »
Jane Goodall & Thane May…
The woman who unlocked the secrets of the chimpanzees shares her more sub… more »
Richard Dawkins, The Greatest…
The world’s preeminent atheist lays out a case for evolution On the… more »
Mary Roach, Stiff
A beach read about human cadavers? Read on… A good writer can make … more »
Jack Horner, How to Build a D…
Strictly an intellectual exercise — also, OMG dinosaurs! Yeah, this… more »
Sandra Blakeslee, The Body Ha…
Neuroimaging helps us to plumb the deep mysteries of our minds A paralyze… more »
D. T. Max, The Family That Co…
Finding the root of incredibly rare and elusive fatal diseases For more t… more »
Daniel J. Levitin, The World …
Non-nerdy scientist explains how music aids evolution There are all kinds… more »
Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D., My …
A fascinating memoir for anyone with a brain When she realized that she w… more »
Michael Pollan, In Defense of…
A sensible argument for sensible eating. If science journalist Pollan… more »
Michio Kaku, Physics of the I…
The co-founder of string field theory explains anti-gravity to the rest o… more »
Susan Orlean, The Orchid Thie…
A botanical exegesis and historical examination of the oddest state in th… more »
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eMusic Features
Interview: Eddie Huang
By Elisa Ludwig, eMusic Contributor
A Vice TV host with a law degree, a hip-hop obsession, and a NYC restaurant called Baohaus (serving Taiwanese buns, named for his favorite architects), Eddie Huang is a walking culture clash. In his memoir… more »
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