Melanie McDonagh Melanie McDonagh

No man is an island

Divorced from other people and the real world, we are all becoming increasingly dehumanising, according to Matthew Crawford’s The World Beyond Your Head

  • The World Beyond Your Head: How to Flourish in an Age of Distraction

    Matthew Crawford

    Viking, pp. 320

  • The Wandering Mind: What the Brain Does When You’re Not Looking

    Michael Corballis

    University of Chicago Press, pp. 184

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