Book ReviewsMost fantasy writers grab the movie version of a creature and run with it, which means they're usually working from a film made fifty years after the creature existed. This book shows you the gap between what a thing actually…
Book ReviewsSona Movsesian's book about thirteen years as Conan O'Brien's assistant is a comedy bit stretched to full length, but it's smarter than it sounds. Under the jokes about napping at work and watching television on the clock sits a real…
Book ReviewsSpace will kill you in dozens of ways, and Paul Sutter's astrophysics guide lays out exactly how each one works. The framing, a travel guide organized by lethality rather than physics, forces the specifics that most space writing skips, from…
Book ReviewsMost of our behavioral patterns lock in by age six, which explains why deciding to change rarely works. This review covers what the book gets right about why willpower fails, and where its proposed solution falls short for readers outside…
Book ReviewsYour internal monologue is so constant you don't hear it as a thought anymore, you hear it as truth. This book explains how that running commentary shapes your emotions and behavior, and what happens when you finally make it visible…
Book ReviewsDe Mello's "Awareness" argues that most people are running on programming they never chose, and he does not offer you a method to fix it. It's a book of recorded talks that works precisely because it reads like being argued…
AgingPetrow started this book as a list of what his parents were doing wrong. Then they died while he was writing it, and the whole thing changed, the tone, the point, everything. By the end, he's writing instructions to himself…
Book ReviewsFernando Savater wrote this book as a letter to his fifteen-year-old son about how to live deliberately, and it refuses to act like a textbook. He argues that ethics means choosing for yourself, not just following rules or doing what…
Book ReviewsA book about the butterfly effect tries to show you something you can't normally see: the consequences of your actions spreading forward through time, past your death, to people you'll never meet. This review examines whether the argument works, and…
Book ReviewsRyan Holiday's third book in the trilogy is gentler than the first two, and the method starts to show. The body section delivers concrete advice on sleep, walking, and saying no, but the spirit section loses the specificity that made…
Book ReviewsEgo isn't confidence or ambition. It's the need to be seen a certain way, and it costs you differently depending on where you are: as an aspiring person, as someone successful, and when you fail. This book examines how ego…
Book ReviewsMarcus Aurelius wrote that obstacles advance action. Ryan Holiday spent a book proving he was right, organizing Stoic philosophy into three practical moves: how you see the problem, what you do about it, and how you survive when nothing works.…
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