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
Read MoreFull Review Archive
The Art of Logic in an Illogical World
Book by Eugenia Cheng
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Review by Jay Wadekar
Bad Blood
Book by John Carreyrou
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Review by Cicely Shillingford
Becoming Wild
Book by Carl Safina
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Review by Sofia Landi
The Bilingual Brain
Book by Albert Costa (trans. John W. Schwieter)
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Review by Kevin Gonzales
Blindness
Book by Jose Saramago (trans. Giovanni Pontiero)
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Review by Megan Elder
The Body
Book by Bill Bryson
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Review by Rewatee Gokhale
The Book That Changed America
Book by Randall Fuller
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Review by Angelika Manhart
Borrowed Time
Book by Sue Armstrong
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Review by Vanessa Kellner
The Brain from Inside Out
Book by György Buzsáki
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Review by Rachel Denison
Building and Dwelling
Book by Richard Sennett
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Review by Susan Sheng
Buzz Sting Bite
Book by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
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Review by Huayi Wei
Coders
Book by Clive Thompson
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Review by Benjamin King
The Consciousness Instinct
Book by Michael S. Gazzaniga
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Review by Farah Abdul-Rahman
A Crack in Creation
Book by Jennifer A. Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg
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Review by Rhea Datta
A Different Kind Of Animal
Book by Robert Boyd
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Review by Marcela Coronado
Doing Harm
Book by Maya Dusenbery
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Review by Karen Kwon
Emerging Epidemics
Book by Madeline Drexler
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Review by Ali Cohen
Enlightenment Now
Book by Steven Pinker
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Review by Sophia Domokos
The Evolution of Beauty
Book by Richard O. Prum
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Review by Alessio Travaglia
Exoplanets
Book by Michael Summers and James Trefil
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Review by Criseyda Martinez
The Fears of the Rich, The Needs of the Poor
Book by William H. Foege
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Review by Alice Fok
The Formula
Book by Albert-László Barabási
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Review by György Buzsáki
The Future of Humanity
Book by Michio Kaku
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Review by Milica Bulajić
The Gene Machine
Book by Bonnie Rochman
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Review by Evelyn Litwinoff
Gods of the Upper Air
Book by Charles King
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Review by Angelika Manhart
Goldilocks and the Water Bears
Book by Louisa Preston
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Review by Jorge Jaramillo
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Book by Jared Diamond
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Review by Agata Bochynska
Hello World
Book by Hannah Fry
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Review by Kate Storey-Fisher
How Emotions are Made
Book by Lisa Feldman Barrett
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Review by Aaron Katzman
I Contain Multitudes
Book by Ed Yong
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Review by Maria Pokrovskii
The Influential Mind
Book by Tali Sharot
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Review by Kaitlyn R. Scacalossi
In Search of the Canary Tree
Book by Lauren E. Oakes
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Review by Mariyah Saiduddin
Into the Grey Zone
Book by Adrian Owen
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Review by Julia Derk
A Journal of the Plague Year
Book by Daniel Defoe, ed. Cynthia Wall
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Review by Benjamin McKenna
Kin
Book by John L. Ingraham
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Review by Margret Veltman
The Last Man
Book by Mary Shelley
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Review by Nicole Perez
Life 3.0
Book by Max Tegmark
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Review by Dervla Kelly
Life In Code
Book by Ellen Ullman
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Review by Francisca Gil
The Little Book of Black Holes
Book by Steven S. Gubser and Frans Pretorius
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Review by Enrico Fonda
Lost In Math
Book by Sabine Hossenfelder
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Review by Mark Wyman
Microbia
Book by Eugenia Bone
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Review by Alexandra Grote
The Mind-Body Problem
Book by Jonathan Westphal
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Review by Cato Sandford
Misbehaving
Book by Richard H. Thaler
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Review by Oliver Vikbladh
Modern Death
Book by Haider Warraich, M.D.
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Review by Anastasia-Maria T. Zavitsanou
The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind
Book by Barbara K. Lipska and Elaine McArdle
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Review by Qiuling Li
Never Home Alone
Book by Rob Dunn
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Review by Tanvi Butola
On Vanishing
Book by Lynn Casteel Harper
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Review by Stephen Serene
Other Minds
Book by Peter Godfrey-Smith
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Review by Rachel Denison
The Plant Messiah
Book by Carlos Magdalena
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Review by Marie Crouzevialle
The Poisoner’s Handbook
Book by Deborah Blum
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Review by Karl Palmquist
Proof!
Book by Amir Alexander
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Review by Jingyang Zhou
Pure Politics and Impure Science
Book by Arthur M. Silverstein
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Review by Geena Ianni
Reductionism in Art and Brain Science
Book by Eric R. Kandel
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Review by Marie Sweet
The River of Consciousness
Book by Oliver Sacks
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Review by Rhea Datta
The Runaway Species
Book by Anthony Brandt and David Eagleman
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Review by Dan Robitzski
Science and the City
Book by Laurie Winkless
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Review by Diego Reinero
The Seabird's Cry
Book by Adam Nicolson
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Review by Li Wang
Seeds of Science
Book by Mark Lynas
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Review by Nicholas DelRose
Spineless
Book by Juli Berwald
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Review by Emily North
Suggestible You
Book by Erik Vance
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Review by Diane S. Lye
Supernavigators
Book by David Barrie
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Review by Tim Currier
The Tangled Tree
Book by David Quammen
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Review by Beth Walters
Testosterone
Book by Rebecca M. Jordan-Young and Katrina Karkazis
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Review by Mary Rossillo
Turning Points
Book by Kostas Kampourakis
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Review by Stephanie Lauer
The Uninhabitable Earth
Book by David Wallace-Wells
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Review by Benjamin Pope
Until the End of Time
Book by Brian Greene
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Review by Ben Deen
Untrue
Book by Wednesday Martin
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Review by Elizabeth Harris
When Death Becomes Life
Book by Joshua D. Mezrich
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Review by Paige Winokur
The Wizard And The Prophet
Book by Charles C. Mann
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Review by Nicholas DelRose
The Workshop and the World
Book by Robert P. Crease
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Review by John Dodson