An incredibly nuanced, complex, well-researched, and well argued book about an unbelievably complex, nuanced, and deeply controversial topic, Can We Talk About Israel traces the history of the last 150 + years or so in the troubled region with Sokatch diving deep into the how-we-got-here narrative of the present state…

This book came out before Roe v. Wade was overturned, but it’s importance and timeliness still cannot be overstated. The Turnaway Study was a “natural” experiment conducted by Dr. Foster and others, in that it looked at randomness in access to abortion programs that allowed researchers to compare people who…

This book is quite simply a devastating takedown of the way we conceive of, process, industrialize, and consume the food systems around us — and how we take those systems for granted because food is so seemingly easy to come by. Bittman traces the entire history of food, from early…

A wonderful, heart-felt, oftentimes funny and oftentimes poignant travelogue of the golfing world of America from one of our best golf writers, Tom Coyne. Coyne is very well known for his golf writing work for Sports Illustrated along with some of his other books, including Paper Tiger, A Course Called…

An absolute monster of a book, Dr. Attia has penned the latest and greatest magnum opus in the field of health, wellness, and longevity. Clocking in at over 400 pages, Dr. Attia focuses his research, theses, arguments, and summaries on what he calls Medicine 3.0, which emphasizes the prevention of…

This one arrived on my doorstep a few weeks ago, a random gift from my Dad, who is a total history buff and World War connoisseur. So the story goes that in 1940, John F. Kennedy — future President of the United States, and then a student in his senior…

For whatever reason, this book was a bargain basement find at my local bookstore, but lucky me because although I had never heard of Jer Thorp before I picked up his book, by all accounts he is a very reputable and experienced source of knowledge regarding all things data. Living…

Based on his Harvard Law School graduation speech, “A Counterculture of Commitment” — a speech that has been viewed more than 30 million times online — Dedicated expands upon Davis’ thesis that “keeping our options open” is proving to be detrimental to our present day society, and since we are…

The second of Mary Roach’s books that I’ve read in the past few weeks, Bonk is a bit older — published in 2008 — but packed with witty tidbits of research and first-hand interviews with many of the leading sex researchers, academics, and urological surgeons of early 2000's. Roach is…