Mostly Nonfiction Book Club

Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari 2024

Nexus looks through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world. Taking us from the Stone Age, through the canonization of the Bible, early modern witch-hunts, Stalinism, Nazism, and the resurgence of populism today, Yuval Noah Harari asks us to consider the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power. He explores how different societies and political systems throughout history have wielded information to achieve their goals, for good and ill. And he addresses the urgent choices we face as non-human intelligence threatens our very existence. (528 pages)

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The Thursday Mostly Nonfiction Book Club focuses on nonfiction but also enjoys classic and contemporary fiction. The group meets on the 3rd Thursday of each month at 2 pm. New members are always welcome. The selection is available on the hold shelf one month before the discussion date. Please visit Mostly Nonfiction Book Club – John C. Hart Memorial Library (yorktownlibrary.org) for book selection of the month.