Claire Hoffman: 4 books

In this engrossing, provocative, and intimate memoir, a young journalist reflects on her childhood in the heartland, growing up in an increasingly isolated meditation community in the 1980s and ’90s—a fascinating, disturbing look at a fringe culture and its true believers. When Claire Hoffman’s...

Leading scholars offer perspectives from the philosophy of science on the crisis in psychiatric research that exploded after the publication of DSM-5. Psychiatry and mental health research is in crisis, with tensions between psychiatry's clinical and research aims and controversies over diagnosis,...

Un roman sur les parents du peintre Camille Pissarro. Elle s’appelle Rachel et vit au paradis. C’est à Saint-Thomas, une île caraïbe, à la fin du XVIIIe siècle. Comme beaucoup de familles chassées par les pogroms, les Manzana Pomié, se sont réfugiés là, dans ce comptoir danois...

Orphan children destroy their nasty superintendent and create a clockwork replacement; a professor publishes a list of known vampires, but doesn’t get it quite right; a military drone achieves sentience—and an unfortunate conscience; self-replicating humanoid robots fall in love with humans; an...