Brian Bethune

Neuroscientist David Eagleman’s brilliant, witty, endlessly inventive collection of micro-tales of various post-life existences.

Marx and Freud have faded badly, but Darwin still rules today

Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles (week of February 10th, 2009)

The short, bitter mid-life crisis of William Leith: aging food addict and hypochondriac

Dan Hill’s absorbing new memoir reveals a complicated family and time

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IQ measures raw intelligence, sure, but what we need is a test for how we actually think

Now 91, and formerly one of the most prominent book editors in Britain, Athill’s various memoirs freely acknowledge she’s had the luck: good genes, good family, good time to be born.

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In various cases, the presence takes over, and tells the nearly dead how to save themselves