Book Reviews Archives
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Eric Klinenberg, Going Solo…
Explores America’s biggest demographic shift since the baby boomers… more »
Katherine Boo, Behind the Bea…
Combats one-dimensional depictions of life in Indian slums The “Ind… more »
Susan Cain, Quiet
A rallying call for introverts everywhere to…be quiet America, argu… more »
Barbara Ehrenreich, Bright-si…
One of our most astute critics exposes some inconvenient truths From over… more »
Paula Szuchman, Spousonomics…
A cost and benefit analysis of marriage If economics is the analysis of c… more »
Amy Chua, Battle Hymn of the …
A parenting style that’s either confoundingly nuts or refreshingly … more »
Bill Bryson, At Home
Bill Bryson quells and affirms your most dilettantish tendencies In his l… more »
Tom Bissell, Extra Lives…
A grown-up video game book for grown-up gamers The 27th birthday of the o… more »
Marilyn Johnson, This Book Is…
A love letter to modern librarians This Book Is Overdue is an apt title f… more »
Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a G…
An argument that people have altered their expectations to sync with tech… more »
Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping…
The juggernaut that launched the Gladwell phenomenon The Gladwell juggern… more »
Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers…
Gladwell tells us why we’re good at what we’re good and bad a… more »
Malcolm Gladwell, Blink…
Gladwell’s most thought-provoking book Malcolm Gladwell’s mos… more »
Malcolm Gladwell, What the Do…
A collection of some of Gladwell’s most thought-provoking essays To… more »
Steven D. Levitt & Steph…
More unlikely numbers from the rogue economics super-sleuths As of this w… more »
Ashley Merryman, NurtureShock…
Rethinking child rearing More devoted to upending the orthodoxy of childh… more »
Ellen Ruppel Shell, Cheap…
How low, low prices destroyed the middle class There may be no such thing… more »
Rob Walker, Buying In…
Walker, the New York Times‘ “Consumed” columnist, speci… more »
Mark Kurlansky, The Food of a…
If curling up with fine food writing sounds like your idea of a literary … more »
Christopher McDougall, Born t…
An addictive investigation into why we run (and keep running) Starting wi… more »
Steven D. Levitt & Steph…
A quotable and common sense-splintering look at why stuff happens If Frea… more »
Dan Ariely, Predictably Irrat…
Ariely tells us how to plan for — and even embrace — our pred… more »
Eric Weiner, The Geography of…
Pursuing the secret to happiness across the planet As a foreign correspon… more »
Daniel Goleman, Emotional Int…
The first big blow to IQ-centrism As Daniel Goleman observes in his 2005 … 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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