BY STEPHEN GREENBLATT W. NORTAON & COMPANY, 2018 224 PP.; $21.95 Stephen Greenblatt’s latest, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics, is about the tyrannical characters in William Shakespeare’s plays. If you think it’s a coincidence Greenblatt wrote... Read More

Those looking for hope (or even energizing desperation) about our prospects for dealing with global warming will want to avoid William T. Vollmann’s new two-part Carbon Ideologies series: No Immediate Danger: Volume One (624 pages;... Read More

BY WALTER ISAACSON SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2017 624 PP.; $35.00 “Leonardo was a genius,” Walter Isaacson says near the end of Leonardo da Vinci. “Yet it is also true that he was a mere mortal.”... Read More

BY MALCOLM HARRIS LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY, 2017 272 PP.; $16.50 (HARDCOVER) $13.99 (KINDLE) Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials by Malcolm Harris is an unusual work of social criticism. Most... Read More

BY ANDREW COPSON OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2017 176 PP.; $18.95 In the not so distant past, say the 1960s or ’70s, a secular society seemed to be the obvious goal of all but the most... Read More

EDITED BY KAREN L. GARST PITCHSTONE PUBLISHING, 2018 224 PP.; $16.95 With a bold title like Women v. Religion: The Case against Faith—and for Freedom, Karen L. Garst once again provides an opportunity for women... Read More

BOOK BY JORDAN B. PETERSON RANDOM HOUSE CANADA, 2018 409 PP.; $25.95 Saying dumb things confidently is different than writing dumb things confidently, which is why it's a surprise Canadian clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson ("professor... Read More