Carsick
CARSICK: JOHN WATERS HITCHHIKES ACROSS AMERICA By John Waters John Waters knows that hitchhiking across the United States, which means in his case taking the I-70 from Baltimore to San Francisco, is an...
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THE ORGANIZED MIND: THINKING STRAIGHT IN THE AGE OF INFORMATION OVERLOAD By Daniel J. Levitin Daniel J. Levitin, professor of psychology and behavioural neuroscience at McGill University and author of...
View ArticleReagan: A Life
REAGAN: A LIFE By H. W. Brands On the occasion of his eightieth birthday, Ronald Reagan received a videotaped message from his former vice-president George Bush, telling him that “they’ll get you on...
View ArticleInformation Doesn’t Want to Be Free
INFORMATION DOESN’T WANT TO BE FREE: LAWS FOR THE INTERNET AGE By Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow’s Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free is a book that’s very clear about what it is and what it isn’t. What...
View ArticleWorld Order and Canada in the Great Power Game 1914 – 2014
WORLD ORDER By Henry Kissinger CANADA IN THE GREAT POWER GAME 1914 – 2014 By Gwynne Dyer In 1648 the Thirty Years War officially came to an end with the treaties now collectively known as the Peace of...
View ArticleOne of Us
ONE OF US: THE STORY OF ANDERS BREIVIK AND THE MASSACRE IN NORWAY By Asne Seierstad Why do we read true crime stories? Partly it’s our fascination with horrifying events, the same impulse that leads us...
View ArticleThe Innovators
THE INNOVATORS: HOW A GROUP OF INVENTORS, HACKERS, GENIUSES AND GEEKS CREATED THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION By Walter Isaacson Some of us can still remember a time when the Internet was being dismissed as a...
View ArticleKeeping an Eye Open
KEEPING AN EYE OPEN: ESSAYS ON ART By Julian Barnes Reading Julian Barnes on any subject is a joy, but his essays about art are a special treat. Not a professional art critic or painter himself, he...
View ArticleFields of Blood
FIELDS OF BLOOD: RELIGION AND THE HISTORY OF VIOLENCE By Karen Armstrong In the most recent rounds of the culture wars the Godly forces haven’t been doing well. Eloquent polemicists of the “new...
View ArticleRise to Greatness
RISE TO GREATNESS: THE HISTORY OF CANADA FROM THE VIKINGS TO THE PRESENT By Conrad Black There’s a tendency for historians to want to climb higher up Olympus as they get older, taking a more extensive...
View ArticleGoebbels
GOEBBELS By Peter Longerich But for the horror of the regime he served, Joseph Goebbels would have some claim to being one of the great comic figures of the twentieth century. This thorough new...
View ArticleThat Lonely Section of Hell
THAT LONELY SECTION OF HELL: THE BOTCHED INVESTIGATION OF A SERIAL KILLER WHO ALMOST GOT AWAY By Lori Shensher Memoir is not the most honest form of writing. It’s most significant revelations are often...
View ArticleShrinks
SHRINKS: THE UNTOLD STORY OF PSYCHIATRY By Jeffrey A. Lieberman with Ogi Ogas The practice of psychiatry has always been both an art and a science. But while the science of psychiatry has recently been...
View ArticleThe Devil’s Cinema
THE DEVIL’S CINEMA: THE UNTOLD STORY BEHIND MARK TWITCHELL’S KILL ROOM By Steve Lillebuen Several years ago Hanna Rosin wrote an essay that appeared in The Atlantic called “Murder by Craigslist.” It...
View ArticleDisposable Futures
DISPOSABLE FUTURES: THE SEDUCTION OF VIOLENCE IN THE AGE OF SPECTACLE By Brad Evans and Henry A. Giroux Disposable Futures is a populist political and philosophical manifesto, but one that is not...
View ArticleSPQR
SPQR: A HISTORY OF ANCIENT ROME By Mary Beard History, especially when it takes the form of a large-scale history attempting to cover the centuries-long rise of Rome, is a story of cause and effect....
View ArticleDivine Invasions
DIVINE INVASIONS: A LIFE OF PHILIP K. DICK By Lawrence Sutin Reading biography can be a disillusioning experience. Before reading this early but still authoritative (and more or less official)...
View ArticleThe Horror of It All
THE HORROR OF IT ALL: ONE MOVIEGOER’S LOVE AFFAIR WITH MASKED MANIACS, FRIGHTENED VIRGINS, AND THE LIVING DEAD . . . By Adam Rockoff Adam Rockoff is a fellow who is very sure of what he does and...
View ArticleAlfred Hitchcock
ALFRED HITCHCOCK By Peter Ackroyd Any biographer writing the life of an artist has to face down the temptation to interpret that life through their work, using it as a key to unlock the artist’s hidden...
View ArticleSuperforecasting
SUPERFORECASTING: THE ART AND SCIENCE OF PREDICTION By Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner 2010 saw the publication of Dan Gardner’s Future Babble, a fascinating look at the often dodgy business of...
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