Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
Jon Krakauer
4.5 I finished Missoula a couple of days ago, and I can't stop thinking about it. It's a searing account of the "rape crisis" that occured at the University of Montana over four years. (Krakauer cites national campus sexual assault statistics as evidence this wasn't a crisis at all; it's actually on par with average.) It's non-fiction, but I couldn't put it down. Krakauer does an excellent job dis
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Konnikova learns high-stakes poker to understand luck and self-control, and turns it into the best kind of psychology book. Fascinating.