
“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"
“The Right Fit: Nicholas de Monchaux's "Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo"”
“Social Darwinism”
“Southpaw Grammar”
“Practicing on Patients”
“An Invitation to Forgetting”
“Honey and the Long Haul”
“The Symphony of Self”
“Oppositional Thinking”
“Discoveries: Jonnie Hughes”
“Paradigms Regained”
“The Future is a Different Country: On William Gibson”
“Breasts Are Us”
“The Read-Write Generation”
“This American Gothic”
“Pulp Science”
“No Success Like Failure”
“Psychiatry’s Legitimacy Crisis”
“Emptying the Electronic Trunk”
“Whatever Being”
“Paradoxes of Altruism in the Digital Age”
“Peace, Violence and the Species”
“Forgive Us Our Skins: On Poliquin's 'Breathless Zoo'”
“On the Trail of the Elusive Vampire Squid from Hell”
“How To Save Ourselves From Extinction (One System at a Time)”
“Lessons from the Field: On "Wild Hope" by Andrew Balmford”
“One Book Opens Another: On “The Secrets of Alchemy””
“Strangers on a Train: Film Americana”
“Solomon's Ladder: On Parenthood, Difference, and Identity ”
“What's In a Prediction? On Nate Silver and the Science of Probability”
“Tilting Against Naïve Materialism: On Thomas Nagel's "Mind and Cosmos"”
“Enlightenment: It's What's For Dinner”
“Illuminated Manuscripts: On the History of Neon”
“Forgetting Dorothy Wrinch: Science and the Culture of Correctness”
“The God That Failed: Evgeny Morozov’s “To Save Everything, Click Here””
“Getting Happier: Three Books on Happiness”
“The Invisible Playground: Phone Phreaking and the Criminalization of Curiosity”
“Bot Like Me: Illah Reza Nourbakhsh’s “Robot Futures””
“"The Pie Hole Is Mine": Mary Roach's "Gulp"”
“Going the Distance: Michelle Orange's "This is Running for Your Life"”
“Silicon Gospel: Byron Reese's "Infinite Progess"”
“Fair Warning: Julian Assange's "Cypherpunks"”
“The Evolving Virgin: Sexual Treaties, Gaga Procreation and the “Facts of Life””
“Devourer of Encyclopedias: Stanislaw Lem's "Summa Technologiae"”
“The Secrets of Consciousness and the Problem of God”
“Delusions of Progress: Psychiatry's Diagnostic Manual”

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