Nonfiction

Mystery to Ourselves: The Brain’s Black Box

The Human Self in Literature and Science: Reviewing Eric Hoel’s ‘The World Behind the World’

Aug 20 •

‘And Lead Us Not into Distraction’

What Monks and Nuns Know about Staying Focused. Reviewing Jamie Kreiner’s ‘The Wandering Mind’

Aug 16 •

Note to Self: Watch Your Mouth

When We Don’t Speak Our Minds: Reviewing Glenn C. Loury’s ‘Self-Censorship’

Jun 28 •

Narrative Control: How Stories Dominate Our Lives

Reviewing Alissa Wilkinson’s ‘We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine’

Jun 14 •

Books Before Print, Paper, and Pixel

The Art and Function of Medieval Manuscripts: Reviewing ‘The Lindisfarne Gospels,’ ‘Imperial Splendor,’ and ‘Performing the Gospels in Byzantium’

May 24 •

3 Ways to Make New Stuff Happen

Lessons in Innovation from Buckminster Fuller, Martin Luther King Jr., Milton Friedman, and Sonny Rollins

Apr 5 •

Ideas Are Tools, and Words Can Heal

An African American History of Literacy and Liberation, and What Their Words Mean for Us All

Feb 1 •

How to Predict the Future Better than a Dolphin

Imagining What’s Next. Reviewing ‘The Invention of Tomorrow: A Natural History of Foresight’

Nov 27, 2024 •

Thinking Is a Group Sport

A Guide to Clear Thinking in a Confusing World: Alan Jacobs’s ‘How to Think’

Nov 13, 2024 •

Finding Your Needle in Chesterton’s Haystack

A Peek at Joseph W. Sprug’s Remarkable 1966 Index to 92 Books by Larger-than-Life G.K. Chesterton

Nov 6, 2024 •

First Draft, Last Draft: How Hemingway Became Hemingway

Reviewing the Celebrated Novelist’s Classic Memoir, ‘A Moveable Feast’

Oct 5, 2024 •

Blind Bard? What History Tells Us about ‘Homer and His Iliad’

Homer Was as Fictional as His Tale of the Trojan War, Right? Robin Lane Fox Says No

Sep 21, 2024 •

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