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Author of the week: Rosalind Wiseman
feature Rosalind Wiseman, whose first book inspired the film “Mean Girls,” has given boys a chance to open their own hearts.
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Book of the week: Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation by Tyler Cowen
feature Tyler Cowen predicts that the gap between the haves and have-nots will widen as “genius machines” assume a greater role in the economy.
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Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore
feature To look back upon Benjamin Franklin and his favorite sister “is to stare at the sun and moon.”
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Author of the week: Helen Fielding
feature Helen Fielding might as well have killed off a real person.
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Also of interest...scientists in fiction
feature The Signature of All Things; Archangel; The Rosie Project; The People in the Trees
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Also of interest...in years that changed everything
feature Year Zero; What You Want Is in the Limo; Year of the Jungle; Very Recent History
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Also of interest...in award winners and contenders
feature The Lowland; The Panopticon; The Internal Enemy; Someone
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Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance by Carla Kaplan
feature Carla Kaplan tells the stories of six white women who bankrolled or otherwise thrust themselves into the heart of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Author of the week: Elizabeth Gilbert
feature Elizabeth Gilbert is braving guarded turf again with her new book, The Signature of All Things.
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Book of the week: Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser
feature The world has come close to nuclear catastrophe many times—often because of the mishandling of American weaponry.
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Book of the week: Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other by Sherry Turkle
feature Turkle is concerned that people seem to prefer simulations of human interaction to the real thing.
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J.D. Salinger: A Life by Kenneth Slawenski
feature Slawenski has published a sympathetic biography that attempts to “get behind the Salinger myth and find the man.”
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Book of the week: The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear by Seth Mnookin
feature In The Panic Virus, Mnookin takes aim at the myth that childhood vaccines can lead to autism or other developmental disorders.
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Author of the week: Gene Sharp
feature From Dictatorship to Democracy, Sharp's 1993 pamphlet on nonviolent resistance, was a critical influence on the organizers of Egypt’s April 6 Youth Movement.
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