Nicholas Carr shows how Jonas Bendiksen’s beautiful photographs “open a door onto a weird and unsettling future.”...

Barbara Kiser reviews three books about our relationship to trees and the forest....

Nathaniel Comfort reviews Howard Markel's new book about Rosalind Franklin, "The Secret of Life."...

Andrew Scull gives stellar marks to Allan Horwitz’s history of the DSMs....

W. Patrick McCray praises Eric Hintz’s new book on America’s independent inventors in the 20th century....

The key to understanding the universe may lie in grasping the ways it replicates itself....

Louise Schiavone explains how leaves of grass in all their variety are “now a piece of the complex puzzle that might hold off carbon overload.”...

George Makari describes xenophobia’s complicated history as a concept, and reveals the curious role of a lone stenographer....

Our ideas about human extinction, including how human extinction might be prevented, have a dark history, explains Tyler Harper....

A review of Kathryn Paige Harden’s “The Genetic Lottery.”...

Reviewing “Making AI Intelligible,” Paul Dicken concludes it might be easier “to build a human that can talk to a computer, rather than the other way around.”...

Reviewing “Up to Heaven and Down to Hell,” Jonah Walters describes the tragedy of the commons from the inside, as a member of the community in question....

In reviewing “Maladies of Empire,” John Galbraith Simmons shows how an understanding of colonial medicine and slavery needs to better inform our present....

Leif Weatherby surveys the new frontier of AI critique....

All the talk of colonizing Mars is a dangerous pipe dream that deflects from the less glamorous task of trying to keep Earth habitable....

Vasant Dhar considers “Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment,” the new book by Daniel Kahneman, Cass R. Sunstein, and Olivier Sibony....

A newly minted doctor specializing in mental health finds Western concepts of trauma don’t have as much meaning when imported abroad....