NON-FICTION & ART BOOK REVIEWS

First a list of all my non-fiction reviews, after that a list of my art book reviews.

NON-FICTION REVIEWS

David Adger – Language Unlimited (2019)

David B. Auerbach – Meganets: How Digital Forces Beyond Our Control Commandeer Our Daily Lives and Inner Realities (2023)

Adam Becker – What Is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics (2018)

Thomas Boraud – How The Brain Makes Decisions (2020)

Allen Buchanan & Russell Powell – The Evolution of Moral Progress: A Biocultural Theory (2018)

Noam Chomsky – What Kind Of Creatures Are We? (2016)

Kenneth L. Davis & Jaak Panksepp – The Emotional Foundations Of Personality: A Neurobiological And Evolutionary Approach (2018)

Lisa-Ann Gershwin – Jellyfish: A Natural History (2016)

Simona Ginsburg & Eva Jablonka – The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul: Learning and the Origins of Consciousness (2019)

David F. Lancy – The Anthropology Of Childhood (2014)

Brian Olewnick – Keith Rowe: The Room Extended (2018)

Luiz Pessoa – The Entangled Brain: How Perception, Cognition, and Emotion Are Woven Together (2022)

Russell Powell – Contingency And Convergence: Toward A Cosmic Biology Of Body And Mind (2020) (The Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology)

Kim Stanley Robinson – The High Sierra: A Love Story (2022)

Richard Rorty – What Can We Hope For? Essays on Politics (2022)  (edited by W.P. Malecki and Chris Voparil)

Alex Rosenberg – Darwinian Reductionism, Or, How To Stop Worrying And Love Molecular Biology (2006)

Alex Rosenberg – How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories (2018)

Jan Spitzer – How Molecular Forces and Rotating Planets Create Life: The Emergence and Evolution of Prokaryotic Cells (2021) (The Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology)

Larry W. Swanson (ed.) – The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal (2017)

Michael Tomasello – Becoming Human: A Theory Of Ontogeny (2019)

Michael Tomasello – The Evolution of Agency: Behavioral Organization from Lizards to Humans (2022)

Pierre L. Van den Berghe – The Ethnic Phenomenon (1981)

Varg Vikernes – To Hell & Back Again: Part 1: My Black Metal Story (Norway 1991-1993) (2024)

Sara Imari Walker, Paul C.W. Davis & George F.R. Ellis (eds.) – From Matter to Life: Information and Causality (2017)

Peter Williams – Jellyfish (2020)

Slavoj Žižek – Too Late to Awaken: What Lies Ahead When There Is No Future? (2023)

Some shorter non-fiction reviews can be found in my list of favorite non-fiction.

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ART BOOK REVIEWS

BASQUIAT

Hans Werner Holzwarth – Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Art of Storytelling (2020)

BERND & HILLA BECHER

Susanne Lange – Bernd and Hilla Becher: Life and Work (2005)

Jeff L. Rosenheim – Bernd and Hilla Becher (2022)

BREUGEL

Leen Huet – Pieter Bruegel: De Biografie (2016)

Manfred Sellink – Breugel In Detail (2014)

DÜRER

Christof Metzger – Albrecht Dürer (2019)

HOCKNEY

Hans Werner Holzwarth, David Hockney & Lutz Eitel – David Hockney. A Chronology. (2020)

Martin Gayford & David Hockney – Spring Cannot Be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy (2021)

PICASSO

Christopher Lloyd – Picasso And The Art Of Drawing (2018)

REMBRANDT

Jonathan Bikker & Gregor J.M. Weber – Rembrandt: The Late Works (2014)

Volker Manuth – Rembrandt. The Self-Portraits (2019)

Jan Six – Rembrandt’s Portrait Of A Young Gentleman (2018)

Ernst van de Wetering – Rembrandt: The Painter Thinking (2016)

JAMES TURRELL

Michael Govan & Christine Y. Kim – James Turrell: A Retrospective (2013)

James Turrell: Extraordinary Ideas – Realized (2018)

DENNIS TYFUS

Nico Dockx – Nico Dockx Talks With Dennis Tyfus – I Know This Sounds Quite Ridiculous, But I Just Follow The Line (2018)

VAN GOGH

Rainer Metzger – Vincent Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings (1989)

Some shorter art book reviews can be found in my list of favorite art books – a list that is tilted much more towards contemporary art.

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Consult the author index for all my reviews, or my other lists.