History, ghosts, vampires, and more ways in which we’re failing the rest of the world, today on the blog.

Plants, anti-paladins, and psychopaths in this week’s reviews.

Old myths are new again. Shiri gets political. And also as disturbed as she’s even been by a book for entirely other reasons.

Chanukah has already started and Christmas is right behind it. And those aren’t the winter’s only gift giving occasions. Still trying to pick great gifts for the readers in your life? I can help. Probably.