But really, Elizabeth Kolbert could make anything interesting, and this feature-length article, ostensibly about the attempt to sequence the Neanderthal genome, uses her trademark personal insight and riveting narrative style.
I am also reading Eric Kandel's riveting, brilliant "The Age of Insight," which, as the subtitle explains, is the "quest to understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain".
In the new Magnolia Pictures documentary Best of Enemies, filmmakers Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville offer insight, back story and riveting rare footage of Vidal and Buckley.
At the time Steinem was a decade away from gaining fame as the co-founder of Ms magazine, but her personal account of going undercover to work as a bunny at the Playboy Club riveted readers, giving them insight into a male bastion that few knew firsthand.
Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips's Becoming Freud (Yale £18.99) is a riveting anti-biography, one that bristles with argument and insight.
To the extent they can, the tapestry-versus-rivets contest seems unlikely to be resolved until the insights of hard science catch up with those of the poet's imagination.
"The country has breathtaking empty beaches, riveting history and offers the chance to meet local people and get an insight into Africa".
A riveting story about a visionary researcher and the nature of scientific inquiry, Neanderthal Man offers rich insight into the fundamental question of who we are.
