Endangered Africa

January 16: “[M]odern humans consume disproportionately more resources than other vertebrates, including humans who had simpler lifestyles.”  

Black Music

Amiri Baraka (1934-2014) “wrote with ecstasy—highly informed and intricate—about ecstatically complex music”, says Richard Brody of this raucous collection of essays on modern jazz giants (Coltrane, Monk, Sun Ra and more) and their sonic...

Andrew’s Brain

In Ragtime and Billy Bathgate, E.L. Doctorow chronicled the reaches of American enterprise and ambition.  Now he ventures to new terrain: the internal mind, and a cognitive scientist’s memories of his traumatic life.