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Book reviews

Obama’s Obama

by Robert Kuttner,

The contradictions of Cass Sunstein

Heads Will Roll

by Dan Chiasson,

The story of a morbid curiosity

Only Human

by Tim Flannery,

The evolution of a flawed species

Paradise Lost

by Jenny Diski,

Did Wonder Woman fail feminism?

New Books

by Christine Smallwood,

In the year 564 b.c., a pankratiast named Arrichion stepped into the ring at the Olympic games. Pankration was a nasty mélange of wrestling and boxing, very popular with the…

The Replacements

by David Quammen,

New evidence on the old mystery of the Neanderthals

The Passenger

by Christopher Tayler,

Creating the Lost Generation

Me, Myself, and Id

by Laura Kipnis,

The invention of the narcissist

Agreeable Angstrom

by Jonathan Dee,

John Updike, Yes-Man

Consume, Screw, Kill

by Daniel Smith,

The origins of today’s mass extinction

Mostpeople’s Poet

by Ruth Franklin,

Is E. E. Cummings a serious writer?