We Recommend: Making Headway
Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions About What to Believe Online, Mike Caulfield and education professor emeritus Sam Wineburg, PhD ’89; U. of Chicago Press. Strong sleuthing skills help you sidestep a spiderweb of spin, scams, and propaganda.
Career Forward: Strategies from Women Who’ve Made It, Grace Puma and Christiana Smith Shi, ’81; Scribner. Think of it as a totable TED Talk, and keep plenty of page markers handy.
The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI, Fei-Fei Li, computer science professor; Flatiron Books. The memoir and making of a scientist, and why she is so optimistic about an AI-supported future.
Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism, Rachel Maddow, ’94; Crown. With World War II looming, a few people risked everything to stop a Nazi-funded scheme to dismantle democracy.
The Dog of the North, Elizabeth McKenzie, MA ’87; Penguin Books. This deeply funny, satisfying story of starting over takes blind curves at full speed—and is a blast of fresh air.
