THE EVOLUTION OF EVERYTHING BOOK BY MATT RIDLEY HARPER, 2015 368 PP.; $28.99 ULTRASOCIETY BOOK BY PETER TURCHIN BERESTA BOOKS, 2015 272 PP.; $18.95 Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins, and their followers have given us a... Read More

BOOK BY ANN NEUMANN BEACON PRESS; 2016 248 PP.; $26.95 With the appearance of The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America, author Ann Neumann (a visiting scholar at the Center for Religion and... Read More

BOOK BY TA-NEHISI COATES SPIEGEL & GRAU; 2015 176 PP.; $24.00 The Black Lives Matter movement confused me at first. I didn’t understand why so many black Americans were so angry. But then I remembered... Read More

BOOK BY SIKIVU HUTCHINSON INFIDEL BOOKS, 2015 325 PP., $10.95 Sikivu Hutchinson heads Black Skeptics Los Angeles and is a social justice activist as well as the author of several nonfiction books on race, religion,... Read More

BOOK BY RICK HELLER NEW WORLD LIBRARY, 2015 288 PP.; $15.95 The very short review of Rick Heller’s Secular Meditation: If you’re curious about secular meditation and mindfulness, there’s finally a book for you. And... Read More

BOOK BY SALMAN RUSHDIE RANDOM HOUSE, 2015 304 PP.;$28.00 (HARDCOVER), $13.99 (KINDLE) This past September the celebrated and controversial author Salman Rushdie published Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights—his first adult novel since Enchantress... Read More

BOOK BY SEON M. LEWIS LULU PUBLISHING, 2015 196 PP.; $15.00 The Caribbean has a ripe history of humanism and skepticism. Great humanists like the writer and theorist C. L. R. James, anthropologist J. A.... Read More