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Don’t ask me to pro­nounce Mihá­ly Csík­szent­mi­há­ly­i’s name but he has writ­ten an excel­lent book about cre­ativ­i­ty. It’s more accu­rate to say that he wrote…

The sev­enth book I read in 2010 was Mal­colm Glad­well’s first book, Tip­ping Point: How Lit­tle Things Can Make a Big Dif­fer­ence. I’ve read (and…

Clever. It’s a lit­tle bit of a dis­turb­ing prece­dent to set, but nev­er­the­less clever. Here is a nov­el writ­ten as a tie-in to ABC’s television…

First, good news. I chal­lenged myself to fin­ish eight books in the month of Jan­u­ary, and I hit my tar­get. Short­ly before eleven PM on…

A few months ago I got an unex­pect­ed pack­age in the mail from my father. It con­tained a paper­back book and a note: «Thought you…

I’m becom­ing con­cerned that my entire read­ing list con­sists of books I’ve learned about through hav­ing watched the tele­vi­sion shows. I dis­cov­ered the Tem­per­ence Brennan…

I feel a lit­tle bad about all the crit­i­cism I’ve done of Kathy Reichs’ first three nov­els. I hope it’s been clear that despite the…

I loved the recent *Star Trek* movie. There were some jar­ring sur­pris­es and it had plot holes you could fly a star­ship through, but that…

There’s noth­ing like a good sto­ry of tri­umph over adver­si­ty, and It’s Not About the Bike: My Jour­ney Back to Life does­n’t dis­ap­point. Arm­strong’s story…