Megan Garber Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Megan Garber

The book is ambitious, expansive, meandering, acute; it helps explain how a person, hoping to reclaim her hours and days, might come to outsource the software of her body to the hardware on her wrist. But its core interest is the collective

Megan Garber

Travel the country long enough, his trip suggests, and it becomes difficult to tell where the landscape ends and the dreamscape begins

Megan Garber

Public Opinion saturates political discourse so completely that its insights, today, might seem obvious. In truth, they are ominous. Democracy is the work of minds made manifest; how will it proceed when “the pictures in our heads” are blurred by lies?

Megan Garber

A brick-size history of American privacy might not seem to be the stuff of summer-reading dreams, but Igo’s thorough study of surveillance both personal and public is, in fact, an ideal book for leisure... Few things are more directly relevant to this moment than matters of privacy and its erosion.

Megan Garber

Darrieussecq, an accomplished novelist, essayist, psychologist, and critic, is also a veteran of a decades-long struggle against sleeplessness. The book is the story of her loss... Sleepless treats insomnia as a question with no answer, an itch with no salve.