North Korea Is Not for the Faint of Heart
I saw Suki Kim on The Daily Show a few nights ago. Although I barely registered the content of her interview, I heard enough to decide her book would probably b...
Tag: non-fiction
Come at Me, NSA
Book Review: No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald No Place to Hide is the culmination of a year’s...
2013: The Year in Books
It’s new year’s eve and it is time for my annual list of the books I read for the year. I read the entire Wheel of Time series this year, which was ...
All Hail the All-Father
Book review Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths by Nancy Marie Brown So, a few weeks ago we saw the new Loki movie—excuse me—Thor movie an...
A Cult I Had Never Read about Before: the Independent Fundamental Baptists
UPDATE MARCH 29, 2023: A lot of people seem to find this post (I assume you’re asking the internet if IFB is a cult) so I am adding a note. If you feel li...
Logic by Any Other Name
Book Review: Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou I heard about this book via friend who thought I might be inte...
Scientology, Comparative Religion, and Fun with Cults
Book Review: Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright There is so much to say about this book that it’s hard to kn...
In the Kiddie Pool
Book Review: The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr I wanted to read The Shallows because, like the majority of people in my ge...
It’s a Trap!
Book Review: The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle Class Mothers & Fathers are Going Broke I picked up this book not because I am a mother (as if I would have tim...
The Ordinary Review
Book Review: The Ordinary Acrobat by Duncan Wall The Ordinary Acrobat occupies the literary territory between memoir, history, and anthropological report. Wall ...