Happy New Year! Some (not all happy) nonfiction

Annalee Newitz, Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind: ( history and present )

Luke Kemp, Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse: ( not what I hoped )

Justin F. Jackson, The Work of Empire: War, Occupation, and the Making of American Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines: ( so shockingly, racist! )

Elliott West, Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion: ( this too )

Nicole Eustace, Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America: ( um ... )

Charles S. Maier, The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: ( history as forces )

Mary Louise Roberts, What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France:( it's complicated? but also racist; rape and rape myths )

Caroline Fraser, Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers: ( Helter Smelter (her joke, not mine) )

Ada Palmer, Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age: ( lots'o'quotes )

Elliott Kalan, Joke Farming: How to Write Comedy and Other Nonsense: ( good instructions )