Book Reviews & Recommendations
Quick verdict: A focused, story-driven primer on Stoic temperance that will motivate many readers to tighten their routines and protect their attention. It also leans hard on leaders, athletes, and war rooms, which some will find distant from everyday life. What the […]
In Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, Naomi Klein invites readers on a haunting intellectual journey through our fractured cultural moment, one in which truth and illusion blur into each other like reflections in a funhouse mirror. Known for her incisive […]
Amanda Montell’s Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism promises a linguistic x-ray of how words recruit, bind, and radicalize. What you actually get is a brisk, darkly witty tour through classic high-control groups like Jonestown, Heaven’s Gate, and Scientology alongside modern phenomena that […]
Malcolm Gladwell has always been a master of finding hidden patterns in the chaos of human behavior, and in Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering, he revisits the concept that made him a household name […]
In We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People, Nemonte Nenquimo, the fearless Indigenous leader and environmental activist from Ecuador’s Amazon, delivers a memoir as lush, fierce, and essential as the rainforest itself. Co-written with Mitch Anderson, the book captures both […]
Heather Cox Richardson’s Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America is a lucid, urgent walk through American history that explains how the United States arrived at a precarious democratic moment and what it might take to reclaim the promise of self-government. […]
In his latest work, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows…: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life, cognitive scientist and bestselling author Steven Pinker invites readers into one of the most fascinating and complex ideas in human psychology: […]
If you’ve ever wondered what it takes to become a saint, Kate Sidley’s How to Be a Saint: An Extremely Weird and Mildly Sacrilegious History of the Catholic Church’s Biggest Names is here to enlighten you with laughter, wit, and a touch […]
In Boat Baby, NBC News anchor and correspondent Vicky Nguyen shares an unforgettable memoir that blends courage, humor, and heartfelt reflection. Through vivid storytelling, Nguyen traces her family’s journey from war-torn Vietnam to a new life in America, exploring the meaning of […]
Scott Ellsworth’s Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America aims for narrative propulsion over academic granularity, and for the most part it hits the mark. If you like your history […]