The Guardian of All Things

Memory makes us human. So argues Michael S. Malone, who entertainingly maps human history against the brain's evolution, and its astonishing ability to recall the past and convey that information to others. A brilliant marriage of neuroscience and anthropology you won't soon forget.

May 25: On this day in 1938 Raymond Carver was born. Carver's poem "Luck," about a nine-year-old who wakes to an empty house and the leftovers of his parents' party, is all too autobiographical: "What luck, I thought. / Years later,…

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…

advertisement