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We Almost Lost the Statue of Liberty, and Other Misadventures in Maintenance
Reviewing Stewart Brand’s ‘Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One’
 • Joel J Miller
Why Is Axe Murder Funny? Why Is It Captivating?
Reviewing Rachel McCarthy James’s ‘Whack Job’ and Andrew Klavan’s ‘The Kingdom of Cain’
 • Joel J Miller
J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Against the World
Reviewing Joseph Loconte’s ‘The War for Middle Earth: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Confront the Gathering Storm, 1933–1945’
 • Joel J Miller
Against Paul Kingsnorth’s ‘Against the Machine’
A Charitable (I Hope) Critique
 • Joel J Miller
Worse Than Jerks: Why Some People Have Rotten Character
And Why Socrates Couldn’t Fix It: Reviewing ‘The Quest for Character’ by Massimo Pigliucci
 • Joel J Miller
Rest Well, Work Well: The Formula for Being Human
Reviewing Two Classics on the Link Between Work and Leisure
 • Nate Marshall
All There Is to Know, More or Less
Encyclopedic Understanding. An A-to-Z Review of Simon Garfield’s ‘All the Knowledge in the World’
 • Joel J Miller
Our Ancestors Murdered Their Mother Tongue, Thankfully
Reviewing Laura Spinney’s ‘Proto: How One Language Went Global’
 • Joel J Miller
Mystery to Ourselves: The Brain’s Black Box
The Human Self in Literature and Science: Reviewing Eric Hoel’s ‘The World Behind the World’
 • Joel J Miller
‘And Lead Us Not into Distraction’
What Monks and Nuns Know about Staying Focused. Reviewing Jamie Kreiner’s ‘The Wandering Mind’
 • Joel J Miller
Note to Self: Watch Your Mouth
When We Don’t Speak Our Minds: Reviewing Glenn C. Loury’s ‘Self-Censorship’
 • Joel J Miller
Narrative Control: How Stories Dominate Our Lives
Reviewing Alissa Wilkinson’s ‘We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine’
 • Joel J Miller
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