Continuing breakthroughs in neuroscience have given rise to shelves full of new books wherein interpreters and popularizers propose to tell us what it all means. Several have taken on the neurochemistry of right and wrong.

Even Jewish self-hatred, in contemporary America no less than in Weimar Germany, bears a characteristically Jewish form.

Universal Studios has refurbished and reissued some of its classic horror fare going back to the early 1930s. Some of this stuff turns out to be scarier than ever, for reasons you wouldn’t expect.

An otherwise laudable attack on the mythology of locavore economics cooks its ingredients on too high a flame.

The premiere of Skyfall marked Agent 007’s return to Istanbul, but which Istanbul? Certainly not Ian Fleming’s, whose contempt for the place drips from the pages of From Russia with Love.

A new book on Islamic law is long on abstractions but short on assessing actual experience. The result is an exercise in erudite misdirection.

For more than two decades now, al-Qaeda and other jihadi groups have matched wits and wiles against U.S. intelligence and counter-intelligence efforts. Two new books score the contest.

The history of the renowned Black-Scholes formula on options pricing weaves through several centuries and many countries. That history, were it better known, would have inspired a little of the humility that was in such short supply in the world of finance before September 2008.

Michael Young's coinage of the term "meritocracy" is turning fifty years old. Young's satirical warnings of its downside remain as fresh as ever.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Americans lost a "sensibility about time and space," says Robert D. Kaplan. His new book seeks to restore it.