Broadening the Frame

Book Reviews – Matt Carlson

Nonfiction

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

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

Four Financial InstrumentsThe Big Short by Michael Lewis

Broadening the FrameThinking 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 StruggleThe Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Dragon’s DanceRed 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 FlightThe Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier

Mythos and MoralityCirce 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