What I'm reading right now is Glassner's excellent (so far) The Culture of Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the Wrong Things.

Finished Boyd's Nabokov's Pale Fire -- the first half of the book is amazing: it has to be the best close reading anyone has ever done of Pale Fire, and it's certainly the best analysis of any text I've ever encountered. The second half is puzzling, and there seemed to be bits that did not connect at all, though even so it's very provocative and interesting.