All Reviews
Reviews are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent review appearing first in the list.
Structuring Mind
Although abundant studies about how attention works at a neurological level exist today, as Sebastian Watzl observes, the problem of what attention i…
The Arabic Freud
Omnia El Shakry, in The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt, demonstrates the hybridization of Islamic discourses an…
The End of Our Story
The End of Our Story is a YA romance featuring serious themes. Bridge is a high school senior who takes her life seriously. She narrates most of…
The Evangelicals
Certainty is demonic. Hypocrisy is omni-present. Politics is religion. Religion is politics. “Even the well informed tend to have very short atten…
The Meaning of Belief
Tim Crane’s The Meaning of Belief: Religion from an Atheist’s Point of View is a thin volume rich in content. Within, Crane provides an ac…
The Sedated Society
The Sedated Society: The Causes and Harms of Our Psychiatric Drug Epidemic is an edited volume by anthropologist and psychotherapist James Davie…
You Know Me Well
San Francisco. Mark and Kate are high school seniors set to graduate. There is just a week to go. While they are in the same class, they didn’t know each…
And Breathe
This book focuses on Transformational Breath, a practice developed by Judith Kravitz in Mexico. Author Rebecca Dennis credits this technique with s…
Beyond Melancholy
Beyond Melancholy finds a place within the burgeoning sub-field of Humanities scholarship that takes emotions as its subject matter. Senior Lect…
Beyond Speech
The feminist anti-pornography movement perhaps reached its peak in the 1980s when an anti-pornography civil rights ordinance, written by Andrea Dworkin a…
Facts and Values
Marchetti and Marchetti offer readers a solid collection of thirteen original essays from scholars hailing from around the world on various relations bet…
He Counts Their Tears
Mary Ann D’Alto’s débuting novel, He Counts Their Tears, is the story of Aaron Stein, a psychopath. Aaron uses what he c…
Lie to Me
Sutton is married to Ethan. They are both writers, and love stories. They tell different stories of their relationship, in alternate sections. The story…
Made for Love
Made for Love starts well, with 35 year old woman Hazel returning to her father’s place after leaving her husband, only to find that he has comm…
Mindfulness
Mindfulness, by K. Witkiewitz, C.R. Ross, D.H. Colgan and S. Bowen, introduces the occidental public to the “theories, understandings, and pract…
Nothing
Charlotte and Frankie are 15 and they read a lot of YA literature. They are very familiar with all the clichés of the genre, and often point out t…
On Human Nature
This small and elegant book has four chapters, of which the first three were given by Scruton as lectures at Princeton University in 2013. It may be read…
Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics
The Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics series evidences the sentiment that normative ethics continues to advance down fascinating new avenues. T…
The Art of Misdiagnosis
The title of Gayle Brandeis’s memoir tells the reader what to expect, as does the description in the blurb. But as she writes it, she brings her readers…
The Bloomsbury Companion to Contemporary Philosophy of Medicine
Bloomsbury Press, under the editorship of James A. Marcum, Professor of Philosophy and Director of Medical Humanities at Baylor University, USA, has rece…
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The Boy Who Loved Too Much
Latson describes a boy she calls Eli who has been diagnosed with Williams syndrome, a genetic disorder that involves physical, cognitive and emotional va…
The Bright Hour
Nina Riggs died in February 2017 at the age of 39. She was a poet, blogger, and mother. Her blog, Susp…
The Infidel and the Professor
This is a story of a friendship between two great geniuses of the eighteenth century. Adam Smith is widely known as the systematizer of the “laws&r…
The Mother of Black Hollywood
Several weeks ago I saw Jenifer Lewis on The View TV show as she spoke about her new memoir, being diagnosed with Bipolar illness mid-way in her…
The Philosophical Parent
Being a parent is the best and worst thing that can happen. Or, as Anne Lamott, mother of Sam, is quoted in Kazez’s The Philosopher Parent, “I f…