Jennifer Wright, Get Well Soon: History’s Worst Plagues: ( Read more... )
Arkady Ostrovsky, The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev to Putin: How things went wrong in Russia, with the failure of democratic reformers to put in a structure that could survive the transfer of power. Very few heroes here.

Hillary Clinton, What Happened: ( Cue gross sobbing )
Neil Strauss, Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life: ( Read more... )

Richard V. Reeves, Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What To Do About It: ( It me )

Brooke Erin Duffy, (Not) Getting Paid To Do What You Love: Gender, Social Media, and Aspirational Work: ( fans who want to be pros )

Jesse Eisinger, The Chickenshit Club: ( Read more... )

Brittney Cooper, Eloquent Rage: ( Embracing rage )

Cult on the CW--anyone have thoughts? I watched the pilot but was severely underwhelmed.
( Scientology, Chinese aeronautics, lessons from traditional societies )

Great quote from The Soap Opera Is Dead! Long Live the Soap Opera! by Rebecca Traister: "The daytime industry they built, like any feminized (and thereby marginalized) genre, was one in which borders went unpatrolled; that, along with a culture of mentorship, meant that other ambitious and talented women unable to find purchase in prime time or film became soap-opera producers and writers at roughly the same rate as men — a still-inconceivable parity."

( 4chan, evolutionary psychology, the fall of AIG, and copyright panics )