Book Review: Dawn of the New Everything: A Journey through Virtual Reality

BOOK BY JARON LANIER HENRY HOLT AND CO., 2017 368PP.; $30.00 (HARDCOVER) $20.00 (PAPERBACK) $14.99 (KINDLE) Jaron Lanier’s Dawn of the New Everything: A Journey through Virtual Reality is an odd book. Part autobiography and... Read More
I Can’t Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street

BOOK BY MATT TAIBBI SPIEGEL & GRAU (2017) 336 PP.; $28.00 (HARDCOVER) $14.99 (KINDLE) With the title, I Can’t Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street, every American knows the subject of Matt Taibbi’s new book:... Read More
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
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
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