Los Angeles Review of Books

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Book Title Author Reviewer Date
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern Stephen Greenblatt Jim Hinch
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming David Wallace-Wells Roy Scranton
The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century Helena Rosenblatt Christine Dunn Henderson
American Cosmic: Ufos, Religion, Technology D. W. Pasulka Samuel Loncar
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power Shoshana Zuboff Nicholas Carr
K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher Mark Fisher Roger Luckhurst
These Truths: A History of the United States Jill Lepore Christine DeLucia
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America Beth Macy Philip Alcabes
Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard Cynthia L. Haven Christopher Shinn
The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis Martha C. Nussbaum Robert Zaretsky
The Ashtray (or the Man Who Denied Reality) Errol Morris Philip Kitcher
Chosen Country: A Rebellion in the West James Pogue Jennifer Kabat
Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World Samuel Moyn Nils Gilman
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership James B Comey Stephen Rohde
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos Jordan B. Peterson Houman Barekat
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner Daniel Ellsberg Daniel Bessner
The Evolution of Beauty Richard O. Prum Ethan Linck
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve Stephen Greenblatt Paul A. Kottman
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America Nancy MacLean Anita Felicelli
Henry David Thoreau: A Life Laura Dassow Walls Daegan Miller
The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao Ian Johnson Johan Elverskog
Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration—and How to Achieve Real Reform John F. Pfaff Josh Jacobs
Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein John Nixon Adam Fleming Petty
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness Peter Godfrey-Smith Marlene Zuk
American Philosophy: A Love Story John Kaag John F. Muller
The Angel of History Rabih Alameddine Noel Alumit
Looking for The Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic Alice Kaplan Robert Zaretsky
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics Carlo Rovelli Jennifer Carson
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates Matthew Shenoda
The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture Pamela Haag Colin Dickey
Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion Susan Jacoby Jack Miles
When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi Jennifer R. Bernstein
Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind George Makari Owen Flanagan
Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age Sven Birkets Bill Capossere
Who Needs a World View? Raymond Geuss Kieran Setiya
The Privatized State Chiara Cordelli
Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization Hasana Sharp
A Social History of Analytic Philosophy Christoph Schuringa
The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis Martha C. Nussbaum Robert Zaretsky
The Great Guide: What David Hume Can Teach Us About Being Human and Living Well Julian Baggini Kieran Setiya
Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto Bryan W. Van Norden Jonardon Ganeri
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