Dylan B Jones

Sep 29, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Dylan B Jones |Jami Nakamura Lin |Rebecca Boyle |Mary Beard

Eric Schwitzgebel. Princeton Univ, $32 (360p) ISBN 978-0-691-21567-9UC Riverside philosophy professor Schwitzgebel (A Theory of Jerks and Other Philosophical Misadventures) explores a question at least as old as Descartes (“Cogito ergo sum”) in this stimulating treatise. As the author sees it, the world is “deeply... weird to its core,” not least because humans are unable to grasp the nature of perception itself.

Sep 28, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Dylan B Jones |Jami Nakamura Lin |Rebecca Boyle |Mary Beard

Karen Tongson. New York Univ, $19.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-4798-4651-1Tongson (Why Karen Carpenter Matters), a gender and sexuality studies professor at the University of Southern California, takes a discerning look at the ambivalence queer viewers feel watching such mainstream family-centric TV shows as Parenthood and This Is Us. These sitcoms and dramas, she suggests, constitute “normporn,” or “a subgenre of television that...

Sep 7, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Dylan B Jones |Jami Nakamura Lin |Rebecca Boyle |Mary Beard

Shibani Mahtani and Timothy McLaughlin. Hachette, $39 (336p) ISBN 978-0-306-83036-5Citizen activists stoutly resist an encroaching tyranny in this powerful and moving debut from journalists Mahtani and McLaughlin.

Aug 7, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Dylan B Jones |Jami Nakamura Lin |Rebecca Boyle |Mary Beard

Katalin Karikó. Crown, $28.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-593-44316-3Hungarian American biochemist Karikó, whose research was instrumental in the development of mRNA vaccines for Covid-19, details her life and career in this captivating debut memoir. While growing up in a one-room house in post-WWII Hungary, Karikó found deep communion with the outdoors—her family grew their own food, and she was fascinated by the teeming animal ecosystems just beyond her backyard.

Jun 25, 2023 | ca.sports.yahoo.com | Dylan B Jones