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Articles by Glenna Halvorson-Boyd
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah Harari. Random House, $35 (528p) ISBN 978-0-593-73422-3 Bestseller Harari (Homo Deus) offers an ambitious but muddled meditation on the past and future of information technology. Positing all human history as a history of information—and defining information as “something that creates new realities”—Harari ends up telling a cautionary tale about the power of stories.
Ghosts of Crook County: An Oil Fortune, a Phantom Child, and the Fight for Indigenous Land
Russell Cobb. Beacon, $31.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8070-0737-2 This riveting legal thriller from historian Cobb (The Great Oklahoma Swindle) opens up a “Pandora’s box containing vital questions about land ownership... and oil wealth” in modern-day Oklahoma.
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Jenny Slate. Little, Brown, $29 (240p) ISBN 978-0-316-26393-1 The quirky humor of comedian Slate (Little Weirds) lights up these odd yet endearing essays, which trace her path to becoming a mother in the years after divorcing her first husband. Reflecting on the early days of dating her second husband, she recounts worrying whenever they were apart that he would lose interest in her, a feeling she gradually overcame through the strength of their connection.
Go Higher: Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner Peace
Sean “Big Sean” Anderson. Simon Element, $28.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-6680-4573-2 Anderson draws on his tenacious rise to rap fame in this openhearted debut guide to personal growth. During a period of depression after college, the author embarked on what became a lifelong journey of “self-reflection” to become his “best self.” Boiling down what he’s learned, he outlines five general principles—accept, strategize, try, trust, and manifest—through stories from his career.
By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
Rebecca Nagle. Harper, $32 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-311204-9 Journalist Nagle reports in her brilliant, kaleidoscopic debut on the legal battles leading up to Sharp v. Murphy, the startling 2020 Supreme Court decision that upheld the terms of a 19th-century treaty granting the Muscogee Nation land for resettlement in Oklahoma.
Cellophane Bricks: A Life in Visual Culture
Jonathan Lethem. ZE, $40 (416p) ISBN 979-8-9886700-0-1 Novelist Lethem (Brooklyn Crime Novel)shares an entrancing collection of stories and essays celebrating visual art.
Should We Go Extinct?: A Philosophical Dilemma for Our Unbearable Times
Should We Go Extinct?: A Philosophical Dilemma for Our Unbearable Times In the face of widespread ecological damage, the threat of nuclear war, and other human-wrought ills, might the world “be better off without us,” muses philosopher May (A Decent Life) in this stimulating treatise.
The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America, 1963–1973 by Clara Bingham
Clara Bingham. Atria, $32.50 (592p) ISBN 978-1-9821-4421-0 Journalist Bingham follows up Witness to the Revolution, an oral history of the end of the 1960s, with an equally stunning oral history of the era’s women’s rights movement. Bingham compiles recollections—some archival, but many gleaned through original interviews—of more than a hundred women who played a part in the radical change brought about between 1963 and 1973 (“In 1963, [an] American woman could not...
John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People
Randall Woods. Dutton, $45 (784p) ISBN 978-0-593-18724-1 According to this sparkling biography, John Quincy Adams both “reflect[ed] and transcend[ed] his famous parents,” just as he was both a product of his young country and a major force in its evolution from fledgling rebel alliance to continent-spanning behemoth to fractured nation riven by civil strife.
Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health
Marty Makary. Bloomsbury, $28.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-63973-531-0 The medical establishment suffers from a reluctance to reexamine its own beliefs in light of new evidence, according to this impassioned cri de coeur. Makary (The Price We Pay), a surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital, discusses how a 2002 study on hormone replacement therapy reported that the treatment causes breast cancer, even though its data didn’t support that conclusion.
We’re Alone: Essays
Novelist and essayist Danticat (Everything Inside) delivers a collection of piercing reflections on her native Haiti. In “A Rainbow in the Sky,” Danticat describes the steep toll that increasingly severe hurricanes are taking on the country (after Hurricane Matthew hit in 2006, “there were reports of people having no food, water, or shelter and living in caves while eating potentially toxic plants”) and laments the reluctance of wealthy nations to accept climate refugees.
The Games: A Global History of the Olympics
David Goldblatt. Norton, $29.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-393-29277-0 Starting with the vigorous reboot of the modern Olympics by French aristocrat Pierre de Coubertin in the 19th century, Goldblatt (The Ball Is Round) chronicles the largest sporting event from the ancient games to the highly organized current spectacles of competition.
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