New York Journal of Books

44 reviews · 2019–2023

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Book Title Author Reviewer Date
What About Philosophy: An Illustrated Q&A Book for Kids Anne-Sophie Chillard and Jean-Chalres Pettier Marissa Moss 2023-05-15
The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century Amia Srinivasan Jane Haile 2022-12-12
Think Like a Feminist: The Philosophy Behind the Revolution Jane Haile 2020-10-12
Socrates in Love: The Making of a Philosopher Armand D'Angour Robert Davis 2019-05-13
The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 Manisha Sinha Steve Nathans-Kelly
The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power Robert D Kaplan Francis P. Sempa
The Philosophy of Modern Song Bob Dylan Paul LaRosa
Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment Brad Snyder Joseph Barbato
The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America Noah Feldman Thomas McClung
The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth Sam Quinones Joseph Barbato
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War Louis Menand Joseph Barbato
How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart Jamal Greene Mike Farris
Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said Timothy Brennan Jonah Raskin
Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders Dennis C. Rasmussen Jerry Lenaburg
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need Bill Gates Walter Clemens
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song Henry Louis Gates Jr. Joseph Barbato
The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers Eric Weiner Lisa Guidarini
Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World Tara Isabella Burton Joan Burda
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari Robert S. Davis
Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir Deirdre Bair Janet Levine
The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America Nicholas Buccola Steve Nathans-Kelly
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine Michael Lewis Daniel Feiman
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution Eric Foner Jonah Raskin
Alpha and Omega Harry Turtledove Carolyn Haley
The Enigma of Clarence Thomas Corey Robin Mike Farris
The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of Americ Daniel Okrent Steve Nathans-Kelly
Shakespeare's Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature Stuart Kells New York Journal of Books
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Siddhartha Mukherjee Nicole Parker, Ph.D.
The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett John L. Murphy PhD
The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts Joan Biskupic Mike Farris
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming David Wallace-Wells Craig R. Roach
The Rule of Law John Lescroart Michael J. McCann
Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely Andrew S. Curran Jonathan Power
When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon Joshua D. Mezrich Jacob M. Appel
American Cosmic: Ufos, Religion, Technology D. W. Pasulka Judith Reveal
The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread Cailin O'Connor and James Owen Weatherall Roger I. Abrams
Rival Queens: The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots Kate Williams Judith Reveal
Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel's Classroom Ariel Burger Elayne Clift
Shakespeare and the Resistance: The Earl of Southampton, the Essex Rebellion, and the Poems That Challenged Tudor Tyranny Clare Asquith Michael Thomas Barry
Napoleon: A Life Adam Zamoyski Francis P. Sempa
The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us about Ourselves Eric R. Kandel Carol Katz
Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment Francis Fukuyama Benjamin Knoll
Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science Karl Sigmund Robert Davis
The River of Consciousness Oliver Sacks Richard Cytowic