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Symptomatic Reading
Scott McLemee surveys a psychoanalytic critic’s response to the pandemic.
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Election-Adjacent
Scott McLemee offers an overview of election-adjacent university press titles.
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‘Every Brain Needs Music’
Scott McLemee considers music and the neurons that love it.
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Getting ‘Unwired’
Scott McLemee reviews Gaia Bernstein’s Unwired: Gaining Control Over Addictive Technologies.
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‘LGBT Inclusion in American Life’
Scott McLemee reviews LGBT Inclusion in American Life by Susan Burgess.
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Couch, Clinic, Scanner
Scott McLemee reviews David Hellerstein’s The Couch, the Clinic, and the Scanner: Stories From Three Revolutionary Eras of the Mind.
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An Encouraging Nature
Scott McLemee rounds up upcoming university press titles focused on science, medicine and the natural world.
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A Studied Ignorance
Scott McLemee reviews Peter Burke’s Ignorance: A Global History.
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