Christopher Lane

Christopher Lane teaches literature at Northwestern University, near Chicago, and is a recent Guggenheim fellow. A London-born literary critic and intellectual historian, his work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, New Statesman, New Humanist, and many other newspapers and journals. He is the author of, most recently, The Age of Doubt: Tracing the Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty (Yale, 2011). His other books include Shyness: How Normal Behaviour Became a Sickness (Yale, 2007), winner of the Prescrire Prize for Medical Writing (France) and highly commended by the British Medical Association, translated into French, Spanish, Danish, Japanese, and Korean.

He writes a popular blog for Psychology Today called "Side Effects." He also writes regularly for the Huffington Post.