Amanda Montell’s “The Age of Magical Overthinking” is not a self-help book. Nowhere in it will you find instructions for outsmarting the thought patterns that lead to pits of despair ...

Linguist Amanda Montell describes her third book, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality, as “the book I’ve always dreamt of writing.” In the book, out April 9 ...

All reviews are written independently by our editorial team. Linguist Amanda Montell is the creator of the podcast "Sounds Like a Cult" and the author of "Cultish" and "Wordslut." Her new book ...