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: George Saunders
By Amanda Davidson, eMusic Contributor
George Saunders's newest story, published only as an audiobook and Kindle Single, is told from the point of view of Fox 8, the title character who pens his tale of friendship and loss by way… more »
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