The Beautiful Ones
Jon Day: The Rat in the Head, 24 July 2025
Rat City: Overcrowding and Urban Derangement in the Rodent Universes of John B. Calhoun
by Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden.
Melville House, 358 pp., £30, July 2024,978 1 68589 099 5 Show More
by Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden.
Melville House, 358 pp., £30, July 2024,
Dr Calhoun’s Mousery: The Strange Tale of a Celebrated Scientist, a Rodent Dystopia and the Future of Humanity
by Lee AlanDugatkin.
Chicago, 295 pp., £22, October 2024,978 0 226 82785 8 Show More
by Lee AlanDugatkin.
Chicago, 295 pp., £22, October 2024,
“... most famous advocates of rodent experimentation in 20th-century psychology. In both Rat City and Lee Dugatkin’s Dr Calhoun’s Mousery he is treated as an eccentric visionary, whose insights might still have something to teach us not just about rats, but about ourselves. The son of teachers, Calhoun grew up in rural Tennessee, where he developed an ... ”
