The Age of Access by Jeremy Rifkin — A Review
Jeremy Rifkin has a habit of being right too early. The Age of Access, published…
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of the Typographic Man — Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan published The Gutenberg Galaxy in 1962, and the world mostly wasn’t ready for…
The Life of Wagner by Ernest Newman — Greatness and Monstrousness in the Same Skin
Few figures in the history of Western art invite such contradictory feelings as Richard Wagner….
E=mc²: A Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation by David Bodanis — A Review
Five letters and a superscript. No punctuation. No explanation required. Of all the intellectual achievements…
101 Things You Don’t Know About Science and No One Else Does Either by James Trefil — A Book Review
What a scientist doesn’t know is more interesting than what he does. That’s not a…
Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence — Richard Wrangham & Dale Peterson (Book Review)
Few books announce their subject as bluntly as Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of…
