Alec Nevala-Lee is the author of The Icon Thief, a suspense novel set in the New York art world. His nonfiction has appeared in The Daily Beast, Salon, and the Los Angeles Times. He blogs at http://www.nevalalee.com.
If Jonah Lehrer ever writes a book about irrationality, it would be hard to imagine a better case study than his own. Like the best of his stories, it’s surprising,…