Against Beach Reading, The Problem With Book Reviews, and More

Go to the beach to get drunk in the sun or crash into a wave.

Go to the beach to get drunk in the sun or crash into a wave. Whatever you do, don't bring a book   ... more »

Mind-body dualism, the isolated individual, the elevation of bloodless reason — if modernity gets you down, there is one recourse: Blame Descartes... more »

The problem with book reviews isn't that they're too mean or too nice, too long or too s…