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![Book jacket for Gregg Barak's Criminology on Trump, featuring an illustration of the former president and two others hugging an American flag with cash floating in the background.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_205_x_203/public/2023-09/Duplicate%20Only%20%284%29.png?itok=tSn6L7kC)
True Criminology
Scott McLemee reviews Gregg Barak’s Criminology on Trump.
![The book cover of Afraid: Understanding the Purpose of Fear and Harnessing the Power of Anxiety, by Arash Javanbakht.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_205_x_203/public/2023-09/Duplicate%20Only%20%283%29.png?itok=M7PgyIyK)
Fear Itself
Scott McLemee reviews Arash Javanbakht’s Afraid: Understanding the Purpose of Fear and Harnessing the Power of Anxiety.
![Book jackets for eight different books featured in the accompanying review.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_205_x_203/public/2023-08/Untitled%20design%20%2819%29.png?itok=hHA6N3au)
World-Wide Weird
Scott McLemee looks ahead to some ‘promisingly weird’ books from university presses due out this fall.
![Book jacket for Daniel Schreiber's 'Alone: Reflections on Solitary Living.'](/sites/default/files/styles/image_205_x_203/public/2023-08/Duplicate%20Only.png?itok=OBmON_X_)
Alone, Together
Scott McLemee reflects on Daniel Schreiber’s Alone: Reflections on Solitary Living.
![The book cover for 'Uncharted: How Scientists Navigate Their Own Health, Research, and Experiences of Bias,' edited by Skylar Bayer and Gabi Serrato Marks.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_205_x_203/public/2023-07/Duplicate%20Only%20%281%29.png?itok=0DoyUrPe)
Opinion
Doing Science With Disabilities
Scott McLemee reviews Uncharted: How Scientists Navigate Their Own Health, Research, and Experiences of Bias.
![Book cover for Debra Hawhee's "A Sense of Urgency."](/sites/default/files/styles/image_205_x_203/public/2023-06/sense_of_urgency_canva.png?itok=1g_lIcz6)
Heavy Weather
Scott McLemee reviews Debra Hawhee’s new book on climate and rhetoric.
![The book jacket for Jacqueline Rose's "The Plague: Living Death in Our Times." Silver lettering is set against a drawing of a silver full moon on a dark-blue background.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_205_x_203/public/2023-06/Rose_plague_reformatted.png?itok=XrSmYD9M)
Symptomatic Reading
Scott McLemee surveys a psychoanalytic critic’s response to the pandemic.
![A compilation of six book covers featured in the accompanying essay.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_205_x_203/public/2023-05/Books-20230531.png?itok=h_-Yq2qO)
Election-Adjacent
Scott McLemee offers an overview of election-adjacent university press titles.
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