Wonderworks: Literary Invention and the Science of Stories, by Angus Fletcher Deborah D. Rogers is unconvinced by an ambitious attempt to apply the insights of neuroscience to centuries of literature By Deborah D. Rogers 12 August
The Price You Pay for College, by Ron Lieber Deborah D. Rogers learns how the privileged make college admissions processes work in their favour By Deborah D. Rogers 8 April
The Years that Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us, by Paul Tough Book of the week: Deborah D. Rogers and Howard P. Segal find that the old ideals of meritocracy have been squeezed out of American higher education By Deborah D. Rogers 14 November
Late-Life Love: A Memoir, by Susan Gubar Deborah Rogers on a testament to literature’s power to sustain life in the face of the indignities of disease and age By Deborah D. Rogers 24 January
American Nightmares: Social Problems in an Anxious World, by Joel Best This attempt to dissipate our anxiety reads like an interesting collection of essays rather than a coherent argument, writes Deborah D. Rogers By Deborah D. Rogers 21 May
The Biopolitics of Gender, by Jemima Repo A provocative study into a controversial subject is let down by a dense, academic style, says Deborah D. Rogers By Deborah D. Rogers 12 October
A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Thousands of details from forgotten lives of domesticity enrich this first-rate history, writes Deborah D. Rogers By Deborah D. Rogers 23 February
