Oakley is looking at the biological roots of bad behavior, with “bad” ranging from mild antisocial tendencies all the way up to mass murder and despotism. Very thorough and quite good.

The Night Watch gets some new recruits.

Collier outlines the causes of the desperate poverty of the world’s poorest countries, and presents his solutions to their plight.

Pratchett keeps getting better.

The ballad of Julien Sorel.