Category: Book Reviews

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

Audrey Goldfarb

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May 2, 2013

by Jerry Melchor Read these two scenarios and note how you would answer the questions: 1) The Linda…
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)

Audrey Goldfarb

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May 2, 2013

by Bernie Langs When reading certain philosophers that are difficult to understand, those of us who were never…
In Our Good Books

Audrey Goldfarb

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April 1, 2013

The reading suggestions have been kindly provided by staff members of the downtown bookstore McNally Jackson. Fated by…
Culture Desk Book review: The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai Interview: George Szirtes (translator of The Melancholy of Resistance)

Audrey Goldfarb

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April 1, 2013

by Bernie Langs After years of feasting on nonfiction books, I find myself binging on works of fiction…
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

Audrey Goldfarb

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March 19, 2013

by Joseph Luna The birth of a scientific field often combines new technology with bold hypotheses, unexpected collaboration,…
CULTURE CORNER Book and Film Reviews: Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald & Celebration Day featuring Led Zeppelin

Audrey Goldfarb

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February 6, 2013

by Bernie Langs I waited impatiently for five years to view and listen to the one-time concert of…
CULTURE CORNER Book Review: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

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December 12, 2012

by Bernie Langs The three current kingpins of British literature are, in my opinion, Martin Amis, Ian McEwan…

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