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Time for spring reading
Our latest book reviews, plus the week’s bestsellers
Our latest book reviews:
- The Secret Lives of Sports Fan: The Science of Sports Obsession, by Eric Simons, review by Jonathon Gatehouse
- Math on Trial: How Numbers Get Used and Abused in the Courtroom, by Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez, review by Peter Shawn Taylor
- A Skeptic’s Guide to the Mind: What Neuroscience Can and Cannot Tell Us about Ourselves, by Robert A. Burton, review by Brian Bethune
- And Hell Followed with Her: Crossing the Dark Side of the American Border, by David Neiwert, review by Martin Patriquin
- Country Girl: A Memoir, by Edna O’Brien, review by Patricia Dawn Robertson
- Salt Sugar Fat, by Michael Moss, review by Jonathan Chevreau
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