Category Archives: Book Reviews

Book Review: Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Posted on May 2, 2013 by cduggan

by Jerry Melchor Read these two scenarios and note how you would answer the questions: 1) The Linda experiment: Linda is thirty-one years old, single, outspoken, and very bright. She majored in philosophy. As a student, she was deeply concerned … Continue reading →

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Culture Desk Exhibition and Book Review The Artful Recluse: Painting, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century China (at The Asia Society through June 2, 2013) Confucius: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean (translated with notes by James Legge)

Posted on May 2, 2013 by cduggan

by Bernie Langs When reading certain philosophers that are difficult to understand, those of us who were never formerly trained as students of the genre often ask, “Why am I putting myself through this?” But in the case of reading … Continue reading →

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In Our Good Books

Posted on April 1, 2013 by cduggan

The reading suggestions have been kindly provided by staff members of the downtown bookstore McNally Jackson. Fated by S.G. Browne From the acclaimed author of Breathers—an irreverent novel about fate, destiny, and the karmic consequences of getting involved with humans. … Continue reading →

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Culture Desk Book review: The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai Interview: George Szirtes (translator of The Melancholy of Resistance)

Posted on April 1, 2013 by cduggan

by Bernie Langs After years of feasting on nonfiction books, I find myself binging on works of fiction these days, and most recently, of all things, Hungarian prose. Having read the German W.G. Sebald and the Austrian Thomas Bernhard, who … Continue reading →

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BOOK REVIEW Entering an Unseen World: A Founding Laboratory and Origins of Modern Cell Biology 1910-1974, by Carol L. Moberg, The Rockefeller University Press, 2012

Posted on March 19, 2013 by cduggan

by Joseph Luna The birth of a scientific field often combines new technology with bold hypotheses, unexpected collaboration, and a healthy dose of luck. There’s also time, that ultimate arbiter of the significant, upon which a new field grows and … Continue reading →

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CULTURE CORNER Book and Film Reviews: Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald & Celebration Day featuring Led Zeppelin

Posted on February 6, 2013 by cduggan

by Bernie Langs I waited impatiently for five years to view and listen to the one-time concert of the 2007 Led Zeppelin Reunion performance, and immediately bought the film the week it became available in November 2012. Celebration Day, the … Continue reading →

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CULTURE CORNER Book Review: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

Posted on December 12, 2012 by tobias

by Bernie Langs The three current kingpins of British literature are, in my opinion, Martin Amis, Ian McEwan and Julian Barnes. In the past I have enjoyed novels by all three, reveling in their tragedies and comedies filled with satire, … Continue reading →

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