Broadening the Frame

Book Reviews – Matt Carlson

Nonfiction

Sleepwalking into Armageddon? – Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen

Religion and the New Atheism – The End of Faith by Sam Harris; The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins; God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens

Four Financial Instruments – The Big Short by Michael Lewis

Broadening the Frame – Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes by Adam Rutherford

The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark History of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr

Soul of the Struggle – The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Dragon’s Dance – Red Roulette: An Insider’s Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today’s China by Desmond Shum

Fiction

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel

A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

Uncanny Flight – The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier

Mythos and Morality – Circe by Madeleine Miller

The House of Broken Angels – by Luis Alberto Urrea

Miscellaneous

Human and Artificial Intelligence

Art and AI – Is Art, as We Know It, Over?

On a Recent Disagreement About Art and AI

Memes and (the Movie) Blow Up