About CSR Book Reviews
Every fall and spring, our crew of doctors and scientists review the season’s most intriguing popular science offerings.
Latest Book Reviews
Can Learning A Language Make You A Better Person?
Kevin Gonzales learns about the fascinating ways language-learning can change your brain in Albert Costa's new book
Read MoreThe Sperm Whale Social Club And Other Amazing Tales of Animal Culture
While enjoying Carl Safina's latest, Sofia Landi is forced to ask: "are animals more cultured than we are?"
Read MoreAn Antidote To Misinformation From 1920’s New York
In Deborah Blum's best-selling tale of toxicology in 1920s New York, Karl Palmquist uncovers a dogged struggle to combat misinformation still relevant today
Read MoreThe Cold Hard Truth About The Cosmos
Ben Deen enjoys an engaging if depressing preview of humanity's future in Brian Greene's latest book
Read MoreThe Extraordinary Dramas and Dilemmas of Transplant Surgery
Transplant surgeon Joshua Mezrich's book is at once autobiography and history of one of the most extraordinary fields in modern medicine. In it, Paige Winokur also discovers a new perspective on the racial justice movement.
Read MoreThe Pandemic Dress Rehearsal Where Everything Went Wrong
Geena Ianni learns that we've been through a trial-run for pandemic preparedness, and are making the same mistakes all over again
Read MoreWhat It Means To Live With Dementia
Stephen Serene finds beauty and insight in Lynn Casteel Harper's portrait of dementia, but worries that it whitewashes the realities of nursing home life
Read MoreThe Ghost of Pandemics Past
Jared Diamond's classic explains how epidemics of the past transformed societies. Agata Bochynska wonders: how will the current pandemic change ours?
Read MoreA Kassandra For Our Time
Ali Cohen finds Madeline Drexler's twenty-year-old profile of new viruses and public health challenges starkly relevant today
Read MoreWhen Fiction Helps Us See
Life imitates art when Megan Elder immerses herself in Saramago's famous pandemic novel
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