21 Lessons for the 21st Century

BY YUVAL NOAH HARARI SPEIGEL & GRAU, 2018 400 PP.; $28.00 Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari is the author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind; Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow; and now,... Read More
America: The Farewell Tour

BY CHRIS HEDGES SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2018 400 PP.; $27.00 For better or worse, you know what you’re going to get with a Chris Hedges’s book. Despite some of them having ostensible focuses—Death of the... Read More
Godless Citizens in a Godly Republic: Atheists in American Public Life

BY R. LAURENCE MOORE AND ISAAC KRAMNICK W. W. NORTON & COMPANY, 2018 256 PP.; $26.95 The narrative of history has not been a pretty one for atheists. One doesn’t have to flip back the... Read More
Seven Types of Atheism

BY JOHN GRAY FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX, 2018 176 PP.; $25.00 The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein contended that religion has no single essence and that religions are best understood as extended families, in the sense that... Read More
The Best of The Humanist: Humanist Philosophy 1928-1973

BY CHARLES MURN HUMANIST PRESS, 2018 450 PP.; $25.00 Charles Murn’s new collection, The Best of The Humanist: Humanist Philosophy 1928-1973, is a great resource for all humanists. Many of us cherish George Santayana’s 1918... Read More
Origin: A Novel

BY DAN BROWN ANCHOR, 2018 656 PP.; $9.99 Dan Brown has written a succession of enormously successful thrillers, including The Da Vinci Code and others in the Robert Langdon series. You find them in airport... Read More
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

BY MICHAEL POLLAN PENGUIN PRESS, 2018 480 PP., $28.00 I tried pot late at age twenty-five. Though I’d been an English major who hung out with wannabe Beats and around plenty of pot and acid,... Read More