Academic and literary books, reviewed by experts
Review of Fraud in the Lab by Nicolas Chevassus-au-Louis JORIS VAN HEIJNINGEN Everyone has heard a story of fraud. Perhaps at a distance on the news, perhaps a legendary story swept under the rug at their university, or perhaps closer
Review of The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities by Tara Fickle ROBERT YEATES Even in the arrangement of its chapters, The Race Card clearly showcases its author’s command of the subject matter, originality, and wit. The structure
Review of The Undying: A Meditation on Modern Illness by Anne Boyer JORDAN MCCULLOUGH In The Undying (2019), poet and essayist Anne Boyer offers a personal and emotive account of her experience of breast cancer diagnosis, treatment and survival. Blending
Imagining the Unimaginable: Interview with Dr Glyn Morgan KATIE STONE Dr. Glyn Morgan is a curator of exhibitions at the Science Museum in South Kensington, London. He is also an honorary research fellow at the University of Liverpool from whom
Reading Outside Your Discipline: How Reading Widely Can Supercharge Your Research VICTORIA ADDIS Why should a physicist read about fossils or a literary historian pick up a book on gravitational waves? At the center of our ethos at AC Review
Review of Evolutionary Causation edited by Tobias Uller and Kevin N. Laland JAG WILLIAMS Evolutionary Causation, edited by evolutionary biologists Tobias Uller and Kevin Laland, is the most recent contribution within the “Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology”. This series “intends
Review of Material and Mind by Christopher Bardt ELIN IVANSSON Material and Mind is an ambitious interdisciplinary project in which Christopher Bardt, Professor of Architecture, examines the links between imagination, materials, and the mind. The fundamental question explored in his
Review of The Dark Fantastic by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas JADE HINCHLIFFE The lack of diverse characters, stories, and authors in fantasy fiction and its related genres of science fiction, speculative fiction, and gothic fiction is deeply problematic. In The Dark
Review of The Sublimity of Document: Cinema as Diorama by Scott McDonald JULIA STOLYAR The sublimity of Document: Cinema as Diorama is a compilation of interviews conducted by Scott McDonald with documentary filmmakers and visual artists from US, Canada, Iran,
Review of The Face on Film by Noa Steimatsky KIERRAN HORNER The central premise of Noa Steimatsky’s fascinating study is the multivalent, polysemous (chiefly) human face. This filmic face is moving in both senses of the word: cinema captures the