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Selected Essays

2010
Goldstein R. Five Best Novels of Ideas. Wall Street Journal. 2010. Publisher's Version
Goldstein R. What's In a Name?. In: Bryson B Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society. London: HarperPress ; 2010. royal_society_volume.pdf
Goldstein R. On the Seventh Day (review of Judith Shulevitz's "The Sabbath World"). New York Times Book Review. 2010. Publisher's Version
Goldstein R. Theory, Literature, Hoax. New York Times Book Review . 2010. Publisher's Version
Goldstein R. Does Moral Action Depend on Reasoning? Yes and no, happily. In: Big Questions Essay Series. John Templeton Foundation ; 2010. goldstein.pdf
Goldstein R. Love, Tough and Not: I.J. Singer’s "The Brothers Ashkanazi". The Book, The New Republic online. 2010. Publisher's Version
Goldstein R. Hearts Full of Sorrow (Review of Nicole Krauss's "Great House"). New York Times Book Review. 2010. Publisher's Version
Goldstein R. When Clarity Isn't a Virtue. Wall Street Journal. 2010. Publisher's Version
2007
Goldstein R. A Kibitz on Pure Reason (dialogue with Michael Weiss). Jewcy. 2007. Publisher's Version
Goldstein R. Review of Saul Bellow’s “Novels 1956-1964”. Los Angeles Times. 2007. Publisher's Version
Goldstein R. Why I’ve Learned to Love the Novel. New Scientist. 2007. new_scientist_essay_by_rebecca_goldstein.pdf
Goldstein R. Review of Mark Lilla's “The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West”. New York Times. 2007. Publisher's Version
Goldstein R. Proud Atheists (Interview with Steven Pinker). Salon. 2007. Publisher's Version
2006
Goldstein R. Consciousness is a brain process. In: Brockman J What we believe but cannot prove: Today’s leading thinkers on science in the age of certainty. New York: Free Press ; 2006.
Goldstein R. Review of “The Literary Animal” Gottschall J, Wilson DS. Nature. 2006;April.
Goldstein R. Review of “Philosophy Made Simple” by Robert Hellenga. New York Times Book Review. 2006. Publisher's Version
Goldstein R. Reasonable Doubt. New York Times. 2006. Publisher's Version
Goldstein R. Review of Deborah Blum's “Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death”. New York Sun. 2006. Publisher's Version
Goldstein R. Review of Daniel Mendelsohn’s “The Lost: A Search for Six of the Six Million”. New York Observer. 2006. new_york_observer.pdf
Goldstein R. Review of Robert Richardson’s “William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism”. New York Times Book Review. 2006. Publisher's Version

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