In this classic in the field of “human computer interaction”, Laurel explores how our interactions with technological interfaces are akin to theater. Her chief insight: “that effective interface design, like…

I can’t summarize better than this review: “In this provocative and powerful mosaic of personal journeys and historical inquiry across a continent and time, Savoy explores how the country’s still…

A book about how “the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control…” It covers the history and structure of mass incarceration, the role of race…

The Teenage Liberation Handbook is an early classic of the “unschooling” movement, an “irreverent and thought-provoking guide” to venturing outside the schoolhouse and into the wider world of learning. As…

It’s a striking book, if you can call it a book at all. Maybe it’s many books. A collection? An assemblage? In any case, a book-like thing, an aura of…

A reductive description might peg this book as a collection of “essays and interviews” — but it’s much more than that. It is, after all, a book of convergences, and…

Thinking in Pictures “delivers a report from the country of autism…writing from the dual perspectives of a scientist and an autistic person…” Grandin is a “gifted animal scientist who has…

I’m a huge Annie Dillard fan, largely because of how she wields language: with vivid intensity and acute perceptiveness, and a gift for weaving observation into insight. This book is…

Fu, or rhyme-prose, is a major poetic form in Chinese literature circa 2nd century BC – 6th century AD, a “[h]ybrid of prose and rhymed verse…verging on what might be…

Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project is a grandiose mega-project that reverberates even as it remains incomplete. It represents massive creative ambition: an encyclopedic catalogue of culture and urban experience in 19th…