LS111 The Long View: To Be Determined

  • 11 Sep 2026
  • 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • A member's appt. in the 15th (details after registration)
  • 11

Registration

  • Tina Bucuvalas

"The Long View: Our Human Odyssey" is a nonfiction book group that will consider books that are oriented towards helping us understand what we—as humans—are, how we arrived here in evolutionary terms (physical, cultural, etc.), and our place in the world.

To date we have read and discussed:

  • "A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes,"" by Adam Rutherford.
  • Salt: A World History" — Mark Kurlansky
  • "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" — Yuval Noah Harari

Some of the other titles  we are considering for future sessions are:

  • "Guns, Germs, and Steel" — Jared Diamond
  • "The Dawn of Everything" — David Graeber and David Wengrow
  • "The Righteous Mind" — Jonathan Haidt 
  • "Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human" — Richard Wrangham 

Because these books tend to be longer than the books that are read and discussed in our monthly fiction book groups, we meet approximately every 8 - 10 weeks.



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