An Atheist Stranger in a Strange Religious Land: Selected Writings from the Bible Belt
BOOK BY HERB SILVERMAN PITCHSTONE PUBLISHING, 2017 264PP.; $15.95 Humanists know Herb Silverman well. He is a past board member of the American Humanist Association, founder of the Secular Coalition for America and the Secular... Read More
The Wisdom of Reza Aslan’s God: A Human History
In his new book, God: A Human History, Reza Aslan reviews the history of and scholarly literature on humans’ conceptions of the divine. Simultaneously reflecting on his own lifelong, winding spiritual journey, he concludes, “it... Read More
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
BOOK BY JENNIFER DOUDNA AND SAMUEL STERNBERG HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT, 2017 304 PP.; $28.00 (HARDCOVER) $14.99 (KINDLE) CRISPR is the basis of a genome editing technology—the latest breakthrough in the grand tradition that began over... Read More
Cigarettes & Wine
BOOK BY J.E. SUMERAU SENSE PUBLISHERS, 2017 250 PP.; $25.00 Cigarettes & Wine, by J.E. Sumerau, is a novel that illuminates fresh perspectives on living out humanist values concerning gender and sexuality, while portraying emotions... Read More
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
BOOK BY KURT ANDERSEN RANDOM HOUSE, 2017 480 PP.; $30.00 In James Joyce’s Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus claims that history is a nightmare from which he is trying to awake. The premise of Kurt Andersen’s ravenously... Read More
Stand for the Banned
One of the many things we should no longer have to talk about in 2017—along with Nazism, white supremacy, and the right to use birth control—is book banning. Yet book censorship complaints rose by 17... Read More
Why I Left, Why I Stayed: Conversations on Christianity Between an Evangelical Father and His Humanist Son
BOOK BY TONY CAMPOLO AND BART CAMPOLO HARPERONE, 2017 176PP.; $15.00; $10.99 (KINDLE) Most books about atheism, or about Christianity, are written by one person, with one viewpoint, for one audience. But in Why I... Read More