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

BOOK BY SAM HARRIS AND MAAJID NAWAZ HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2015 144 PP.; $17.95 (HARDCOVER), $9.99 (KINDLE) Sam Harris began his public-intellectual life back in 2004 with the release of his first book, The End... Read More

For a bulk of it, 1,000 Lashes seems like a compellingly dull book. If its passages were published in, for example, The New York Times, they would probably come off as the last breath of consensus liberalism. Intellectuals are overpraised for... Read More

The Last Aloha is first and foremost a love story. As a luminary in freethought and feminist circles, Cleo Fellers Kocol (1988 Humanist Heroine) could have centered her memoir on her activism in those areas,... Read More

A group of elephants attempts to describe a human being. Tragically, they are blind, but as each snuffles and nudges they call out what they perceive and together they are able to come up with... Read More