Brain on Fire

Victim of an enigmatic neurological disease, Susannah Cahalan was suddenly stricken with hallucinations and bouts of madness. Thanks to the diagnosis of a quick-witted doctor, she emerged from the other side of her surreal ordeal able  to share everything she learned about the nature of the mind (especially her own) in this illuminating memoir.

May 24: Joseph Brodsky was born on this day in 1940 in Leningrad. Brodsky's constitutional skepticism was not compatible with the official Soviet alternatives, and by age twenty-five he was in prison, wrapped in cold, wet sheets as…

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

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