NONFICTION
Hugh Raffles, Insectopedia (Pantheon). Why insects? "When insects enter our lives, they usually do it on their terms, not ours. With a few notable exceptions, such as bees and silkworms, we’ve never figured out how to control them. We don’t know what they’re thinking or what they’re feeling— or even if they do think or feel—and we don’t have any good ways of figuring that out. To me, those were all good enough reasons to write a book about them." newyorker.