Out of My Skull: The Psychology of Boredom, by James Danckert and John D. Eastwood
Randy Malamud admires a distinctly engaging account of an energy-sapping emotion
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American Niceness: A Cultural History, by Carrie Tirado Bramen
Book of the week: Behind a veneer of amiability, Randy Malamud finds discord, cruelty and a ‘cultural charade’
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A scholar in Svalbard
An academic conference in the world’s northern-most human settlement was a profoundly unsettling – and enlightening – experience for Randy Malamud
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Righting America at the Creation Museum, by Susan L. Trollinger and William Vance Trollinger, Jr.
Book of the week: Randy Malamud on two scholars’ exploration of a temple of Christian fundamentalist belief
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One big yawn? The academics bewitched by boredom
Randy Malamud examines the fascination in a fringe academic topic
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American Zoo: A Sociological Safari, by David Grazian
This perceptive ethnography takes Randy Malamud behind the scenes at the penguin pool to ask if the institutions are scientific and educational enterprises or just commercialised animal spectacles