Kathryn Schulz
Journalist and author; staff writer at The New Yorker.
A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
Uh, I would like to encourage you and your listeners at some point to go read A Place of Greater Safety, which is the book Hillary Mantel wrote before turning to Thomas Cromwell and his compatriots. Um, it is about the French Revolution. It is 800 pages long, incredibly undisiplined, uh, absolutely unruly and wildly great to read.
on a podcast · 30 May 2025 · Report
Spent by Alison Bechdel
Uh, number two is a book that just is out uh this week, I believe, uh, which is this wonderful graphic novel spent by Allison Bechal, uh, with beautiful color artwork by her partner, Holly Ray Taylor. It's about the experience of growing up in a relatively harsh scrabble family and living this kind of marginal artistic existence and then suddenly finding yourself reasonably well off.
on a podcast · 30 May 2025 · Report
Expert Political Judgment by Philip E. Tetlock
Tetlock is a professor of political science, psychology and business, and his book is terrific – funny, sharp, delightfully written.
on fivebooks.com · 18 Oct 2010 · Report
Human Error by James Reason
But he’s one of the foremost thinkers in what you might call error studies, and his ideas are crucial to some of the advancements made in error prevention in domains where it really matters, such as aviation and engineering.
on fivebooks.com · 18 Oct 2010 · Report
Illusions by James Sully
But Illusions is that rare book that’s explicitly about wrongness.
on fivebooks.com · 18 Oct 2010 · Report
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Although it’s not usually read this way, I think of Pride and Prejudice as a great morality tale about the dangers of certainty.
on fivebooks.com · 18 Oct 2010 · Report
The Confessions by Augustine
Augustine gave us a model for telling that kind of story – stories about the complete shattering and replacement of a world view. And then there’s the fact that he’s just such an amazing writer and thinker.
on fivebooks.com · 18 Oct 2010 · Report
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