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Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
Sa fascination pour ce fragment de cerveau me paraissait, en la circonstance, sacrément audacieuse. Jusqu’à ce que je découvre qu’un certain Thomas Harvey, pathologiste chargé de déterminer les causes de la mort d’Albert Einstein survenue le 18 avril 1955, avait, une fois son travail achevé, quitté l’institut dans lequel il travaillait, emportant a
... See moreJean-Paul Dubois • La Succession (OLIV. LIT.FR) (French Edition)
Everyone from Jack the Ripper to Jeffrey Dahmer. From Charles Manson to Ted Bundy.
Kevin Dutton • The Wisdom of Psychopaths
Being a domesticated species, we’re most interested of all in the cause and effect of other people. We’re endlessly curious about them. What are they thinking? What are they plotting? Who do they love? Who do they hate? What are their secrets? What matters to them? Why does it matter? Are they an ally? Are they a threat? Why did they do that irrati
... See moreWill Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human, and How to Tell Them Better
What did the dead Joan of Arc hear? Insight or delusion? Next week he’ll tell his undergrads about Durkheim, Foucault, crypto-normativity: How reason is just another weapon of control. How the invention of the reasonable, the acceptable, the sane, even the human, is greener and more recent than humans suspect.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
If I have a worst fear it is this: the fear of the loss of human gravity.
Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
The Lucifer Principle contends that evil is woven into our most basic biological fabric.