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The Book at the End of the World
Scott McLemee reviews Timothy Beal's The Book of Revelation: A Biography.
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Perfectly Transparent
In the wake of the most recent effort to undermine transgender people and their rights, Scott McLemee reviews this year's books on them.
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Billion-Year Spree
In On the Future: Prospects for Humanity, Martin Rees encourages us to think beyond the new norms of diminished and collapsing expectations, writes Scott McLemee.
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Polls Apart
Scott McLemee reviews two new scholarly books on the American electorate and its discontents.
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Python in Residence
Scott McLemee reviews John Cleese's new book, Professor at Large: The Cornell Years, a selection of lectures and colloquies from his time moonlighting as an Ivy League don.
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The People v. Expert Authority
Scott McLemee interviews the author of The New Authoritarianism: Trump, Populism, and the Tyranny of Experts.
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Frankenstein Lives!
Scott McLemee reviews some of the university press titles inspired by Mary Shelley’s classic.
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Distant Early Warning
Masterpiece or not, William S. Burroughs' "The Revised Boy Scout Manual": An Electronic Revolution fills a puzzling lacuna in the Beat author's bibliography, writes Scott McLemee.