THE DEADLY RISE OF ANTISCIENCE: A Scientist’s Warning. Peter J. Hotez didn’t need to debate JFK Jr. (or Joe Rogan for that matter) because everything he needed to say was already written for this book! Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023, 240 pp., $24.95.

MAGIC (Arts for Health). On the heals of winning the David Attenborough Award for promoting critical thinking, Richard Wiseman also just published this new book about the intersection of magic and wellbeing. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023, 123 pp., $24.99.

EVERYBODY’S MAGIC! A community youth development organization in South Africa, the College of Magic, partnered with Richard Wiseman to publish this booklet (and deck of cards) for young magicians with all the the proceeds going to the nonprofit organization. Vanishing Inc., 2023, 25 pp., $25.00.

NOBODY’S FOOL: Why We Get Taken in and What We Can Do about It. The same team who wrote The Invisible Gorilla—Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris—share more about deception in their latest book. Did you notice the back-to-back use of the word the in the previous book description? If not, you’re not alone. Basic Books, 2023, 336 pp., $30.00.

SHADOWS OF SCIENCE: How to Uphold Science, Detect Pseudoscience, and Expose Antiscience in the Age of Disinformation. Capping a lifelong career dedicated to science, Kendrick Frazier gifts us this book exactly when we need it the most. Prometheus Books, 2023, 304 pp., $26.95.

THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MARTIN GARDNER. Edited by Dana Richards, this bibliography “draws on the two hundred boxes of Gardner’s mathematical papers held in the Stanford archives.” (And by the way, did you catch the hidden reference to Martin Gardner in the season 9 finale of Penn & Teller: Fool Us?) Center for the Study of Language and Information, 2023, 464 pp., $37.50.