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Many books (we’re not just talking Don DeLillo novels here) are basically really long and elaborate lists, but some are more subtle about their bullet-point structure than others. Pop-up books, with their over-arching themes and one-subject-per-spread format, are particularly obvious lists. One amazing recent tome, The Pop-Up Book of Phobias by Gary Greenberg, Matthew Reinhardt [...]

Call us strange (no really, please do), but if we had a weird, obscure and fairly embarrassing phobia of something (and we’re not saying we don’t), the last thing we’d do is ask a daytime talk show to cure us. Apparently, we’re more or less alone in that camp, as you’ll observe if you watch [...]