Silence: A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, January 2019. Hardcover. From the author of the "dazzling epic"* Brilliant, a compelling history of silence as a powerful shaper of the human mind--in prisons, in places of contemplation, and in our own lives Through her evocative intertwined histories of the penitentiary and the monastery, Jane Brox..... More