Aiming to Misbehave
The Hales give us a Rapunzel who blatantly transgresses her roots, breaking all the rules and defying expectations. She's a proactive heroine, who handles things on her terms.
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True Stories
"The remarkable thing is how few lawyers seem to realize they are supposed to be storytellers at all."
From Socrates to Bin Laden
"Dying for Ideas: The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers" is a stimulating spiritual journey through an essential topic of human existence.
Two-Way Monologue: How to Get Past Science vs. Religion
Anyone tempted to believe that the history of human thought tends toward progress is well advised to consider the long-running, endlessly circular arguments over science and religion.
Chasing the Writer
Suzanne Berne reviews Viviane Forrester's biography on the life of Virginia Woolf.
Ms. Difficult
Jennifer Glaser reviews Lidia Yuknavitch's new book, "The Small Backs of Children."
Bursting the Optimistic Technology Bubble
Machines themselves are turning into workers, and the line between the capability of labor and capital is blurring as never before.
A Short Take on Mathematics
"Math Geek" may be the first math book ever to explicitly welcome "geeks" and "nerds."
The Mundane Origins of a Historical Drama
Emily Rose new book, The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe takes us to the blood libel’s roots
The Moments of Realism
That the Marxist critic Fredric Jameson's new book, "The Antinomies of Realism," should take up the 19th-century realist novelists will strike some as inevitable.
Activists or Revolutionaries? Iranian Women in “Jewels of Allah”
Nina Ansary on the lesser-known roles of Iranian women activists, reformers, and actors for and against the Islamic state.
How to Eat a Book
"The ways in which the act of sharing food helps build, demarcate, and destroy relationships."
Wired for Madness? A History
Madness in civilization, or so-called "degeneracy," can be interpreted in a variety of ways depending on the time period and who's in charge of categories.
Uptown/Downtown
I started the sensationally titled "Words Without Music" with trepidation.
Gendering Chromosomes
How the X chromosome became associated with all things female and the Y with all things male is not as simple as we all think.
An Aesthetic of Expansiveness: Drawn and Quarterly at 25 Years
Drawn & Quarterly publishes a who’s who of the contemporary comics world.
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