In this week’s Spring Books special — 6 reviews, 10 books, immeasurable reading pleasure — historian of genetics Nathaniel Comfort assesses a trio of new works on genomics, led by John Parrington’s The Deeper Genome. Comfort is dismayed by the outworn terminology we keep trotting out to describe our messy, dynamic, ‘junk’-ridden inner Universe. What’s needed, he asserts, is fresh, accurate imagery, nippy enough to keep up with the evolving science.  Read more