Jonathan LeafJonathan Leaf is a playwright and novelist. He has written for the Daily Beast, Commentary, National Review, The New Criterion, Modern Age, Tablet, the New York Post, New York Daily News, Spectator (USA), Law & Liberty, City Journal,The Weekly Standard, and many other publications.

In 2018, The Wall Street Journal called his play Pushkin a “triumph,” naming it one of the year’s four best. Kirkus Reviews has called his novel City of Angles “literary entertainment at its best.” Now Leaf turns his attention to the subject that his parents devoted their lives to and with which he has had a lifelong fascination: what neuroscience is revealing about human nature. Read More Read Less