Hot Time in the BioCity: On Char Miller’s “Natural Consequences”
Peter Sebastian Chesney considers Char Miller’s “Natural Consequences: Intimate Essays for a Planet in Peril.”
Peter Sebastian Chesney considers Char Miller’s “Natural Consequences: Intimate Essays for a Planet in Peril.”
Peter Sebastian ChesneyJan 20, 2023
Philosopher Paul Dicken reviews a new volume, “The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn: Incommensurability in Science,” edited by Bojana Mladenović.
Paul DickenJan 16, 2023
Jeff Wheelwright reviews Lyndsie Bourgon’s “Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America’s Woods.”
Jeff WheelwrightDec 30, 2022
Chelsea Jack Fitzgerald reviews Elspeth Barker’s “O Caledonia,” a Scottish noir interested in the connections between different types of anthropogenic...
Chelsea FitzgeraldDec 26, 2022
Joani Etskovitz explores the genres at play — from astronomy and mythology to self-help and romance — in Dr. Moiya McTier’s “The Milky Way: An...
Joani EtskovitzDec 24, 2022
Mariam Gomaa reflects on the intertwining characteristics of health, surgery, religion, and philosophy.
Mariam GomaaNov 27, 2022
Patrick Valiquet responds to music theory’s close encounter with speculative realism in “Alien Listening: Voyager’s Golden Record and Music from...
Patrick ValiquetNov 26, 2022
Daniela Blei explores the paradoxes constituted by “the beach” — an allegedly natural place of leisure and fun since the Industrial Revolution...
Daniela BleiNov 16, 2022
John Dupré discusses recent science books about genetic modification, conservation, factory farming, and the effects of capitalism on ecology.
John DupréNov 13, 2022
Writer Cal Turner and Sara Van Horn interview Adrienne Buller, author of “The Value of a Whale.”
Cal Turner, Sara Van HornOct 27, 2022
Markus Gabriel speaks to Andrea Capra about his philosophy of a New Enlightenment.
Andrea CapraOct 23, 2022
Henry M. Cowles reviews Patrick House’s “Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness” and finds House’s brains to be remarkably similar to Wallace...
Henry M. CowlesOct 11, 2022
In “Unprecedented? How COVID-19 Revealed the Politics of Our Economy,” a group of political economists use a single and precise metaphor — photosynthe...
Michelle ChiharaOct 6, 2022
Historian of technology Patrick McCray describes Chris Miller’s “Chip War” as “an account of how chips became a strategically vital resource whose...
W. Patrick McCrayOct 4, 2022
Leo D. Lefebure takes a critical look at Seung Chul Kim’s “The Center Is Everywhere.”
Leo D. LefebureSep 25, 2022
Anthropologist Meredith Reiches describes how having a uterus changes what’s possible, physically and legally — and how, once again, what’s possible...
Meredith ReichesSep 22, 2022
Callie Hitchcock gets to know “Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us,” a new analysis of mental illness by Rachel Aviv.
Callie HitchcockSep 22, 2022
Arjun Appadurai scans Alexander R. Galloway’s “Uncomputable: Play and Politics in the Long Digital Age.”
Arjun AppaduraiSep 18, 2022
Allen Mendenhall reviews “Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of Our Democracy” by Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone.
Allen MendenhallSep 1, 2022
Paul Allen evaluates John F. Haught’s “God After Einstein.”
Paul AllenAug 28, 2022
Jeannine Burgdorf reviews Hayley Campbell’s new book “All the Living and the Dead.”
Jeannine BurgdorfAug 27, 2022
Marit J. MacArthur and her colleagues dive deep into the particularities of spoken word performance and its reception.
Marit J. MacArthur, Howard Rambsy II, Xiaoliu Wu, Qin Ding, Lee M. MillerAug 27, 2022
Pradeep Niroula lauds Alec Nevala-Lee’s new biography, "Inventor of the Future," which soberly fact-checks Buckminster Fuller’s legend.
Pradeep NiroulaAug 2, 2022
Jayson Greene reviews David George Haskell’s new book, “Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution’s Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory...
Jayson GreeneJul 27, 2022