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book culture @bookculture.com · 14d

yes this is a post to let you know event season starts tonight
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Mark Mazower TONIGHT!
@alexandrahorowitz.bsky.social & @christinewebb.bsky.social in convo Monday
Stephanie Cowell on her Brontë novel Tuesday
@bernardharcourt.bsky.social on Foucault Wednesday
& more!

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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 16d

The process of building and sustaining that relationship can be enacted only by individuals who are motivated by another vision and experience of what the good life might be, who can reimagine this richer relationship and are already bringing it into being (2/2).

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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 16d

Corporate greed and deception, capitalist economics, and a lack of political will certainly play an outsize role. But we don’t just need an overhaul of these institutions; we need a new relationship to the world (1/2).

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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 19d

The Arrogant Ape is #2 for non-fiction books New York Times readers say they’re most eager to dive into this season.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/b...

The Books Times Readers Are Most Excited About This Fall

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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 23d

Thank you!! Yes - I discuss the history of human exceptionalism including the role of The Enlightenment in Chapter 3 (and revisit some of its actors - like Descartes - throughout)

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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 24d

THE ARROGANT APE (Avery / PRH) available now wherever books are sold.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717436/the-arrogant-ape-by-christine-webb

The Arrogant Ape by Christine Webb: 9780593543139 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

An impassioned celebration of humility before the living world that leads us to a new understanding of other species—and ourselves Darwin considered humans one part of the web of life, not the apex.....

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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 24d

What does it mean to be human? The word “human” itself derives from the root world humus, meaning “earth.” To be human thus means to be of the earth, not apart from or better than any of the other beings with whom we share this planet.

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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 27d

Is this a good or bad thing? 🙉

Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 27d

How wonderful! Thank you for sharing. Going to order :)

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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 28d

What’s it like to narrate your own audiobook? Some insights from This Is the Author: penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/this-is-the-...

On the Podcast: Christine Webb, Jim Reese, and Reza Aslan - Penguin Random House Audio

S10 E35: Go behind the mic with the authors of The Arrogant Ape, Coming to a Neighborhood Near You, and No god But God.

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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · Sep 8

More praise for THE ARROGANT APE (Avery / Penguin Random House), available now wherever books are sold.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717436...

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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · Sep 6

Thank you!

Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · Sep 5

More NYT coverage of THE ARROGANT APE: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/b...

6 Books We Loved This Week

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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thanks so much!!

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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · Sep 2

It was a labor of love for the more-than-human world, and I feel so lucky that I got to write this book and bring it to the wider public. Biggest thank you to everybody who helped make it possible! (3/3)

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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · Sep 2

I witnessed these ideas transforming how we understood and experienced other species and the environment. I hope engaging with this work will have as powerful an effect on readers as it did on us. (2/3)

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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · Sep 2

THE ARROGANT APE IS OUT TODAY!

The idea for this book began in 2019 in a seminar course I taught at Harvard. With each class discussion, it felt like my students and I were imagining and crafting a world beyond human exceptionalism. It was the world we wanted to live in. (1/3)

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The Literate Lizard @theliteratelizard.bsky.social · Sep 1

Here are this week's 20% off new release book picks, four fiction, four nonfiction. You don't have to support Jeff Bezos to get discounts on hot new books. Come to us: theliteratelizard.com/front-page-b...
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This week's four 20% off new nonfiction picks, discounted through September 13th:
- The Accidental Seed Heroes: Growing a Delicious Food Future for All of Us, by Adam Alexander
- Mother Mary Comes to Me, by Arundhati Roy
- The Improbable Victoria Woodhull: Suffrage, Free Love, and the First Woman to Run for President, by Eden Collinsworth
- The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters, by Christine Webb

This week's four 20% off new fiction picks, discounted through September 13th:
- To the Moon and Back: A Novel, by Eliana Ramage
- Trip: A Novel, by Amie Barrodale
- Vianne: A Novel, by Joanne Harris
- We'll Prescribe You Another Cat, by Syou Ishida

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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · Aug 28

5 key insights from the book here:
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The Biggest Threat to Humanity’s Survival is Not What You Think

Author Christine Webb shares 5 key insights from her new book, The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters.

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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · Aug 28

Excited that the The Next Big Idea Club team has selected my book as a monthly must-read!

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The Next Big Idea Club’s September 2025 Must-Read Books

These titles will be included in our longlist of potential titles for Season 27 of the Next Big Idea Club.

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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · Aug 28

Once delusions of human superiority and separateness are broken down, we can no longer stand by a watch Nature’s destruction. Nature is not a means to human ends but an interdependent system whose well-being ultimately determines our own.

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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · Aug 26

The New York Times includes THE ARROGANT APE in their round-up of “25 Books Coming in September”!

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/b...

25 Books Coming in September

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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · Aug 25

This disguise obscures who we really are—a way to cover up our own insecurities, perhaps. Yet behind this mask is a much richer and truer way of being. (3/3)

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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · Aug 25

The arrogant ape is not a species or a culture or even an individual—it is a way of acting a moving and being in relation to the rest of Nature. Many of us have learned the script and perform it dutifully: a role, a persona, a façade. (2/3)

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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · Aug 25

Consumed by a human superiority complex, the arrogant ape mirror Hamlet—a hubristic character caught in a tragedy of its own making. (1/3)

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