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The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
Kevin Roose
★★★★· Published 2009· 324 pages
A Brown student spends a semester undercover at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University and comes away with real empathy. Curious and open-hearted, not smug — I loved that about it.
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★ 5The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence
Kevin Roose
Primates of Park Avenue
Wednesday Martin
An anthropologist 'studies' the ultra-wealthy mothers of the Upper East Side like a lost tribe. Funny and a little unbelievable — a guilty pleasure.
The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
Leslie Jamison
Part memoir of her own drinking, part sweeping cultural history of addiction and the writers it claimed. Searching and ambitious.