Los Angeles Review of Books

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Book Title Author Reviewer Date
Theory and Practice Jacques Derrida and Shenzai: Deconstruction Gregory Jones-Katz 2019-05-13
Elements of a Philosophy of Technology: On the Evolutionary History of Culture 2019-05-06
Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason 2019-05-06
Little Did I Know: Excerpts from Memory Stanley Cavell Marshall Cohen 2019-04-29
Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus Elaine Pagels Nick Owchar
Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life Richard Beck Adam Straus
The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No Carl Elliott Gordon Marino
The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon Adam Shatz Anthony Alessandrini
Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia Kate Manne Emmeline Clein
Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish Francesca Peacock Thomas Elrod
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution Vincent Bevins Tyler McBrien
Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth Jennifer Banks Anna Katharina Schaffner
Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future Patrick J Deneen Jeffrey C. Isaac
Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope Sarah Bakewell Robert Zaretsky
Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable Joanna Schwartz Hector Villagra
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness Andrew Scull Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen
The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings Geoff Dyer Jason Christian
The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War Nicholas Mulder Priya Satia
Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media Jacob McHangama Stephen Rohde
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality Kathryn Paige Harden Brenna M. Henn, Emily Klancher Merchant, Anne O’Connor & Tina Rulli
On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times Michael Ignatieff Robert Zaretsky
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity David Graeber and David Wengrow Matthew Porges
Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights Erwin Chemerinsky Laurie L. Levenson
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War Louis Menand Harlow Robinson
How to Blow Up a Pipeline Andreas Malm Scott W. Stern
How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart Jamal Greene Stephen Rohde
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life Jordan B Peterson David Wolpe
The Life of the Mind Christine Smallwood Alena Graedon
The Life of the Mind Christine Smallwood Grace Linden
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? Michael J. Sandel Christopher Kutz
Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy Wolfram Eilenberger Costica Bradatan
The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy Stephanie Kelton Aaron Wistar
Einstein in Bohemia Michael D Gordin Audra J. Wolfe
The Death of Jesus J. M Coetzee Will Forrester
The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success Ross Douthat Joseph Hogan
Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century Sarah Abrevaya Stein Elaine Margolin
Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir Deirdre Bair Sophie Madeline Dess
On Immunity: An Inoculation Eula Biss Susan McCallum-Smith
On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal Naomi Klein Casey Williams
Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost Caitlin Zaloom Andrea Penman-Lomeli
The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite Daniel Markovits George Alliger
The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care Anne Boyer Emily LaBarge
The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care Anne Boyer Natasha Boyd
The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care Anne Boyer Hilary Plum
The Enigma of Clarence Thomas Corey Robin John W. W. Zeiser
A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind Harriet A. Washington Eisa Nefertari Ulen
Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family Sophie Anne Lewis Madeline Lane-McKinley
How the Classics Made Shakespeare Jonathan Bate Rhodri Lewis
Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Mark Trecka
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow Henry Louis Gates Robert D. Bland
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