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Showing posts with label Books Society. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books Society. Show all posts
Saturday, October 18, 2025

Book Review: More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity (2025). Adam Becker.

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I’ve been very interested lately in artificial intelligence (AI) and our current fears and hopes about it, and have done a lot of reading on...
Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Book Review: Sociopath: A Memoir (2024). Patric Gagne, PhD.

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Years ago, I read and reviewed The Sociopath Next Door (2005) by Martha Stout, an eye-opening survey of sociopathy by a clinical psychologi...
Friday, September 19, 2025

Book Review: The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness (2024). Jonathan Haidt.

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In the course of my recent reading on the topics of the attention economy, and the effects of our society’s overload of attention-disrupting...
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Book Review: The Heat Will Kill You First. Jeff Goodell (2023).

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I read this climate change non-fiction book some months ago, and it’s taken me a while to get around to writing a review of it, but I believ...
Thursday, July 11, 2024

Book Review: Fluke: Chance, Chaos and Why Everything We Do Matters. Brian Klaas (2024).

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In one of my favorite lines from my song Strangers , I posed a rhetorical question: “Who can trace the mysterious chain of events that now...
Thursday, September 1, 2022

Book Review: Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging (2016). Sebastian Junger.

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This 2016 book by Sebastian Junger, the noted action journalist and chronicler of people under extreme duress, whether at sea, as in The Per...
Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Book Review: Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (2019). Ronan Farrow.

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An extremely well-written, fast-paced true-life autobiographical thriller, in which the multi-talented NBC reporter and New Yorker writer d...