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Book jacket for Gregg Barak's Criminology on Trump, featuring an illustration of the former president and two others hugging an American flag with cash floating in the background.
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True Criminology

Scott McLemee reviews Gregg Barak’s Criminology on Trump.

By Scott McLemee

The book cover of Afraid: Understanding the Purpose of Fear and Harnessing the Power of Anxiety, by Arash Javanbakht.
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Fear Itself

Scott McLemee reviews Arash Javanbakht’s Afraid: Understanding the Purpose of Fear and Harnessing the Power of Anxiety.

By Scott McLemee

Book jackets for eight different books featured in the accompanying review.
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World-Wide Weird

Scott McLemee looks ahead to some ‘promisingly weird’ books from university presses due out this fall.

By Scott McLemee

Book jacket for Daniel Schreiber's 'Alone: Reflections on Solitary Living.'
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Alone, Together

Scott McLemee reflects on Daniel Schreiber’s Alone: Reflections on Solitary Living.

By Scott McLemee

The book cover for 'Uncharted: How Scientists Navigate Their Own Health, Research, and Experiences of Bias,' edited by Skylar Bayer and Gabi Serrato Marks.
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Doing Science With Disabilities

Scott McLemee reviews Uncharted: How Scientists Navigate Their Own Health, Research, and Experiences of Bias.

By Scott McLemee

Book cover for Debra Hawhee's "A Sense of Urgency."
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Heavy Weather

Scott McLemee reviews Debra Hawhee’s new book on climate and rhetoric.

By Scott McLemee

The book jacket for Jacqueline Rose's "The Plague: Living Death in Our Times." Silver lettering is set against a drawing of a silver full moon on a dark-blue background.
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Symptomatic Reading

Scott McLemee surveys a psychoanalytic critic’s response to the pandemic.

By Scott McLemee

A compilation of six book covers featured in the accompanying essay.
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Election-Adjacent

Scott McLemee offers an overview of election-adjacent university press titles.

By Scott McLemee