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Margaret Mead and her life -
How our chaotic, imperfect minds crackle with genius -
Women doing science -
Women who shaped history -
Knocking you off your ass-umptions -
Biographies about perseverance -
Medicine in the trenches -
Thoughtful works of fiction and non-fiction -
Healthy and compromised brains -
Fiction books where science plays a main character -
The struggle to be yourself in a crazy world -
Writing about the real world -
Girls on islands -
Writers and the strange and magical things that inspired them -
The spirit of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road -
For historians who wish they were anthropologists -
Mystery plots that both surprise and delight -
Haitian history and Haiti today -
Writing about the wisdom of others -
Religious violence