Book Reviews
Our Pragmatic Present
There is no prescribed meaning or purpose to our lives—and that’s okay
by John Kaag | Monday, March 27, 2023
Mind in Nature: John Dewey, Cognitive Science, and a Naturalistic Philosophy for Living ·
From Mandate to Nation State
How a failed Arab rebellion ensured Israel’s survival
by Randy Rosenthal | Monday, March 06, 2023
Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict ·
Doors of Perception
The often unreliable ways we interpret reality
by Natalie Angier | Wednesday, March 01, 2023
Where We Meet the World: The Story of the Senses ·
Death in Drohobych
A new biography of a Polish literary master
by Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough | Wednesday, March 01, 2023
Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History ·
Culture Shock
The hidden history of reverse colonization
by Ilan Stavans | Wednesday, March 01, 2023
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe ·
Life at the Bottom
It’s not just the rich who victimize the poor
by Nancy Isenberg | Wednesday, March 01, 2023
Poverty, by America ·
The Center Cannot Hold
A kaleidoscopic journey through a divided country
by Elizabeth D. Samet | Wednesday, March 01, 2023
The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War ·
Tales of Memory and Forgetting
What happens when we cease to be who we were?
by Scott Stossel | Wednesday, March 01, 2023
Travelers to Unimaginable Lands: Stories of Dementia, the Caregiver, and the Human Brain by Dasha Kiper ·
Errant Thought
Can we keep the Enlightenment from dimming?
by Steven G. Kellman | Wednesday, March 01, 2023
Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope ·
More Than Mere Words
The strange allure of the printed page
by Steven G. Kellman | Thursday, January 26, 2023
Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers ·
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