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Melissa Dassori, J. R. Silver Writes Her World (Little, Brown, 2022). There was a glorious if brief phase in my kids’ growing up when on a long car trip, we would listen to audiobooks — not through our individual headphones, but together, through the car stereo system. No...

Moral anthropology is a field of study that examines the ways in which moral values, beliefs, and practices are formed, expressed, and understood within different cultural contexts. It explores the intersection of culture, ethics, and human behavior, seeking to understand how moral systems are shape...

This book is about memory and its myths. Rodrigo Quiroga is a recognized Argentinian neuroscientist known to have discovered the “Jennifer Aniston” neurons, named concept cells. These are neurons that “fire” when a person sees an object that represents a concept. By show...