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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.
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Symptomatic Reading

Scott McLemee surveys a psychoanalytic critic’s response to the pandemic.

A compilation of six book covers featured in the accompanying essay.
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Election-Adjacent

Scott McLemee offers an overview of election-adjacent university press titles.

Every brain needs music book cover
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‘Every Brain Needs Music’

Scott McLemee considers music and the neurons that love it.

The cover of Unwired by Gaia Bernstein
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Getting ‘Unwired’

Scott McLemee reviews Gaia Bernstein’s Unwired: Gaining Control Over Addictive Technologies.

Susan Burgess' LGBT Inclusion in American Life: Pop Culture, Political Imagination, and Civil Rights (NYU Press)
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‘LGBT Inclusion in American Life’

Scott McLemee reviews LGBT Inclusion in American Life by Susan Burgess.
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Couch, Clinic, Scanner

Scott McLemee reviews David Hellerstein’s The Couch, the Clinic, and the Scanner: Stories From Three Revolutionary Eras of the Mind.
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An Encouraging Nature

Scott McLemee rounds up upcoming university press titles focused on science, medicine and the natural world.
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A Studied Ignorance

Scott McLemee reviews Peter Burke’s Ignorance: A Global History.