December 14, 2020
Publishers Weekly gives Elizabeth Kolbert’s Under A White Sky a starred review:
“This investigation of global change is brilliantly executed and urgently necessary.”
December 13, 2020
Discover Magazine recommends Janice Nimura’s The Doctors Blackwell:
“Nimura shocks and enthralls with her blunt, vivid storytelling.”
December 10, 2020
Elizabeth Kolbert’s Under A White Sky is an Oprah Magazine Most Anticipated Book of 2021:
“The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction probes for solutions in our acidic oceans, polluted atmosphere, and shrinking wildernesses.”
https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/books/g34772945/best-books-2021/
December 08, 2020
Eight writers receive the 2020 Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction grants.
November 20, 2020
Joseph Henrich’s The WEIRDest People in the World is one of the New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2020!
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/books/notable-books.html
October 29, 2020
Democracy In One Book or Less by David Litt named one of Teen Vogue’s “7 Books That’ll Help You Understand America’s Voting History.”
October 26, 2020
Punishment Without Crime author Alexandra Natapoff publishes an op-ed in the Washington Post: “Americans are hungry and desperate. California shouldn’t respond by cracking down on food theft.”
October 26, 2020
Punishment Without Crime author Alexandra Natapoff publishes an op-ed in the Washington Post: “Americans are hungry and desperate. California shouldn’t respond by cracking down on food theft.”
September 12, 2020
Daniel Dennett praises Joseph Henrich’s THE WEIRDEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD in his review for the New York Times:
“[An] engagingly written, excellently organized and meticulously argued book… An extraordinarily ambitious book, along the lines of Jared Diamond’s ‘Guns, Germs and Steel’...but going much farther…& wielding data points from world history, anthropology, economics, game theory, psychology & biology.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/books/review/the-weirdest-people-in-the-world-joseph-henrich.html
September 07, 2020
Joseph Henrich’s The WEIRDest People in the World reviewed in the Atlantic:
“Toppling the accomplishments of Western civilization off their great-man platforms, [Henrich] erases their claim to be monuments to rationality. Everything we think of as a cause of culture is really an effect of culture, including us.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/10/joseph-henrich-weird-people/615496/
July 21, 2020
James Fallows praises David Litt’s Democracy In One Book or Less in the Atlantic:
“If you’re looking for a wry, quickly readable, yet informed and edgy point about the same topic [America’s governing problems], I highly recommend Democracy In One Book or Less, by David Litt.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2020/07/three-guides-next-america/614284/
July 06, 2020
Behavioral Scientist features THE WEIRDEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD by Joseph Henrich in its latest round-up of books to look out for.
https://behavioralscientist.org/behavioral-scientists-summer-book-list-2020/