Jennifer Szalai Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Jennifer Szalai

This book is really quite a joy to read... it asks us as humans, as readers to step outside what he calls our sensory bubble, to try to experience the world in a completely different way... this is really a book about animals as animals as they don't relate to us.

Jennifer Szalai

I didn’t think a book by a law professor about cybersecurity would be funny (in addition to including all the requisite Serious Stuff, of course), but Scott Shapiro’s “Fancy Bear Goes Phishing” proved me wrong. https://t.co/Ir27aJ27xG

Jennifer Szalai

“The Facemaker” is mostly a story of medical progress and extraordinary achievement, but as Gillies himself well knew — grappling daily with the unbearable suffering that people willingly inflicted on one another — failure was never far behind.

Jennifer Szalai

With catastrophic climate change bearing down on us, nuclear power has been promoted by some as an obvious solution, but this sobering history urges us to look hard at that bargain for what it is.

Jennifer Szalai

Wilkinson has accomplished something ... moving and original, braiding his stumbling attempts to get better at math with his deepening awareness that there’s an entire universe of understanding that will, in some fundamental sense, forever lie outside his reach.

Jennifer Szalai

Isaacson has ably conveyed that Musk doesn’t truly like pushback. Some of his lieutenants insist that he will eventually listen to reason, but Isaacson sees firsthand Musk’s habit of deriding as a saboteur or an idiot anyone who resists him.

Jennifer Szalai

Powerful... Absorbing and lucid... She brilliantly conveys the grim and tangled history of Argentina’s last five decades through the people who experienced it up close.

Jennifer Szalai

Also grateful for the excuse to revisit this memorable index from Martin Amis's "Experience" (photo doesn't even include all the entries listed under "dental problems," which continue onto the next page): https://t.co/rfUQpPLOb4

Jennifer Szalai

Kehlmann brilliantly conveys how fascism turns intimate, with cruelty trickling down into the most ordinary interactions... I’m about halfway through the book and am completely absorbed...wry, intelligent, nimbly written — and undeniably entertaining, too.

Jennifer Szalai

It was a pleasure to read and to think alongside Tara Zahra's "Against the World," a lively and ambitious new history of globalization and its discontents. https://t.co/L7etYs7kUB