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In the Fall
Scott McLemee explores the connections between various books forthcoming from scholarly presses.
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The Distraction Attraction
A lesson in Ethan Tussey’s The Procrastination Economy: The Big Business of Downtime is that a large, voracious and profitable cultural apparatus is absorbing and monetizing every second of your attention, writes Scott McLemee.
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Of Grift and Government
Scott McLemee reviews Can Government Do Anything Right? by Alasdair Roberts.
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The Impatient Patient
Scott McLemee explores Barbara Ehrenreich’s Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer.
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Wild, Wild 'Westworld'
Scott McLemee reviews Westworld and Philosophy, a collection of essays to be published shortly before the second season of the HBO series begins.
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Social Media, Privacy and Technological Change
Scott McLemee reviews new and forthcoming titles from university presses that take up these interconnected subjects.
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In a Cardboard Grave
Scott McLemee reviews Alberto Manguel's Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions.