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Journalist and author; staff writer at The New Yorker.
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The ConfessionsBook Augustine
Augustine gave us a model for telling that kind of story – stories about the complete shattering and replacement of a world view. And then there’s the fact that he’s just such an amazing writer and thinker.
Five Books interview: the best books on wrongness
2010-10-18·fivebooks.com ↗
Expert Political JudgmentBook Philip E. Tetlock
Tetlock is a professor of political science, psychology and business, and his book is terrific – funny, sharp, delightfully written.
Five Books interview: the best books on wrongness
2010-10-18·fivebooks.com ↗
Pride and PrejudiceBook Jane Austen
Although it’s not usually read this way, I think of Pride and Prejudice as a great morality tale about the dangers of certainty.
Five Books interview: the best books on wrongness
2010-10-18·fivebooks.com ↗
A Place of Greater SafetyBook Hilary Mantel
Uh, I would like to encourage you and your listeners at some point to go read A Place of Greater Safety, which is the book Hillary Mantel wrote before turning to Thomas Cromwell and his compatriots. Um, it is about the French Revolution. It is 800 pages long, incredibly undisiplined, uh, absolutely unruly and wildly great to read.
Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “Our Lives Are an Endless Series of 'And'” (https://nytimes.com/2025/05/30/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-kathryn-schulz.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.
2025-05-30·youtube.com ↗
SpentBook Alison Bechdel
Uh, number two is a book that just is out uh this week, I believe, uh, which is this wonderful graphic novel spent by Allison Bechal, uh, with beautiful color artwork by her partner, Holly Ray Taylor. It's about the experience of growing up in a relatively harsh scrabble family and living this kind of marginal artistic existence and then suddenly finding yourself reasonably well off.
Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “Our Lives Are an Endless Series of 'And'” (https://nytimes.com/2025/05/30/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-kathryn-schulz.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.
2025-05-30·youtube.com ↗
IllusionsBook James Sully
But Illusions is that rare book that’s explicitly about wrongness.
Five Books interview: the best books on wrongness
2010-10-18·fivebooks.com ↗
Human ErrorBook James Reason
But he’s one of the foremost thinkers in what you might call error studies, and his ideas are crucial to some of the advancements made in error prevention in domains where it really matters, such as aviation and engineering.
Five Books interview: the best books on wrongness
2010-10-18·fivebooks.com ↗
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