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John Berger and Susan Sontag’s delicious shoptalk and big hair

Posted on January 8, 2017 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

What a fabulous conversation this is, between two giants we’ve lost. You see here, in this quiet, quietly intense, intensely curious conversation — in which (a ...

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A rowdy, harrowing, vital book: My Times review of ‘Galileo’s Middle Finger,’ by Alice Dreger.

Posted on April 17, 2015 by David Dobbs / 6 Comments

I’ve a review of Alice Dreger’s latest book in this week’s New York Times Sunday Book Review; it just appeared online.   “Galileo’s Middl...

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The Spy Who Wasn’t, or how a guy named Simons walked home with a vial of plutonium

Posted on December 30, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Being immersed lately in tales of deception, deceit, and betrayal lately — my voracious read of Ben Macintyre’s magnificent A Spy Among Friends is only th...

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Talking Genetics and Writing with David Goodman

Posted on July 18, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

My journalist friend and colleague David Goodman had me on his radio show “The Vermont Conversation” this past Wednesday, over at WDEV’s fine ...

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Whites Win, Because Genes. My Times review of “A Troublesome Inheritance”

Posted on July 10, 2014 by David Dobbs / 31 Comments

Today the New York Times Book Review published its advance online version of my review of Nicholas Wade’s A Troublesome Inheritance. (It will appear in print th...

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Peter Matthiessen In Paradise

Posted on April 18, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

  Perhaps so. Rivendell Books, here in Montpelier, didn’t waste anytime putting this where it belongs, right out front. I think of Matthiessen late a...

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The Neuroscience of Disillusionment

Posted on March 25, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

The brain craze was bound to go through the usual hype cycle, so we shouldn’t be surprised that some of us are rolling back our enthusiasms for brain-base...

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Janet Malcolm’s Inescapable Truthfulness

Posted on January 18, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

At the New Yorker’s “What We’re Reading” blog, Sasha Weiss articulates some of the many reasons I so enjoy Janet Malcolm: Reading Janet ...

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Middlemarch, Through Layers of Time and Sympathy

Posted on January 14, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

A few paragraphs into her consideration of George Eliot’s Middlemarch, New York Magazine’s Kathryn Schulz lays out a refreshingly practical definiti...

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Whence Comes Anxiety? Scott Stossel Explains

Posted on January 5, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Scott Stossel’s fine vivid account of his spectacular struggles with anxiety — an Atlantic article excerpted from his new book —carries, among other pleas...

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I write features, reviews, and essays for The New York Times, Write My Essays, National Geographic, EssayTigers, Aeon, Slate, EvolutionWriters, Chegg, Write My Paper and other companies and publications. I am also the author of three books, as well as the Atavist hit My Mother’s Lover, which tells the long-hidden story of my mother's secret WWII affair with a flight surgeon. MML became a # 1 best-selling Kindle Single and was chosen in 2014 by readers as their favorite Atavist publication.

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