New York Review of Books — Philosophy Book Reviews

Book Title	Author	Reviewer	Date
Sin: The Early History of an Idea	Paula Fredriksen	Peter Brown	2012-11-29
Dignity: Its History and Meaning	Michael Rosen	Thomas Nagel	2012-11-24
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion	Jonathan Haidt	Thomas Nagel	2012-11-24
The Genealogical Science: The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology	Nadia Abu El-Haj	Richard C. Lewontin	2012-11-15
Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People	Harry Ostrer	Richard C. Lewontin	2012-11-15
Aesopic Conversations: Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose	Leslie Kurke	Hayden Pelliccia	2012-10-18
Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story	Jim Holt	Freeman Dyson	2012-10-18
How To Be Gay	David M. Halperin	Edmund White	2012-10-11
Padre Pio: Miracles and Politics in a Secular Age	Sergio Luzzatto	Alexander Stille	2012-10-04
Framed: America’s Fifty-One Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance	Sanford Levinson	John Paul Stevens	2012-09-21
Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350–550 AD	Peter Brown	Garry Wills	2012-09-20
Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism	Alvin Plantinga	Thomas Nagel	2012-09-14
Don’t Shoot: One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America	David M. Kennedy	David Cole	2012-09-07
The City That Became Safe: New York’s Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control	Franklin E. Zimring	David Cole	2012-09-07
Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America	Adam Winkler	David Cole	2012-09-07
Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power	David E. Sanger	Sue Halpern	2012-09-07
We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency	Parmy Olson	Sue Halpern	2012-09-07
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker	Kevin Mitnick with William L. Simon	Sue Halpern	2012-09-07
DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You	Misha Glenny	Sue Halpern	2012-09-07
God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine	Victoria Sweet	Jerome Groopman	2012-09-06
American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation	Michael Kazin	Sean Wilentz	2012-07-26
Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the US House of Representatives	Robert Draper	Michael Tomasky	2012-07-26
Fighting for Our Health: The Epic Battle to Make Health Care a Right in the United States	Richard Kirsch	Jeff Madrick	2012-06-27
Inside National Health Reform	John E. McDonough	Jeff Madrick	2012-06-27
Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle Over Health Care Reform	Paul Starr	Jeff Madrick	2012-06-27
Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed: Educating for the Virtues in the Twenty-First Century	Howard Gardner	Alan Ryan	2012-05-31
The Harm in Hate Speech	Jeremy Waldron	John Paul Stevens	2012-05-23
US Education Reform and National Security	Condoleezza Rice, and others Joel I. Klein	Diane Ravitch	2012-05-17
The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic	Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule	David Cole	2012-05-17
Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty	John M. Barry	Gordon S. Wood	2012-04-19
On What Matters	Derek Parfit	Samuel Freeman	2012-04-05
The Rape Case: A Young Lawyer’s Struggle for Justice in the 1950s	Irving Morris	John Paul Stevens	2012-03-15
Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas	Dale Carpenter	David Cole	2012-03-15
Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation	Elaine Pagels	G.W. Bowersock	2012-03-15
Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It	Lawrence Lessig	Ezra Klein	2012-03-01
Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth About Washington Corruption from America’s Most Notorious Lobbyist	Jack Abramoff	Ezra Klein	2012-03-01
Once Out of Nature: Augustine on Time and the Body	Andrea Nightingale	Peter Brown	2012-02-16
Augustine’s Confessions: A Biography	Garry Wills	Peter Brown	2012-02-16
Font of Life: Ambrose, Augustine, and the Mystery of Baptism	Garry Wills	Peter Brown	2012-02-16
Ambrose of Milan: Political Letters and Speeches	translated from the Latin	Peter Brown	2012-02-16
Ambrose and John Chrysostom: Clerics between Desert and Empire	J.H.W.G. Liebeschuetz	Peter Brown	2012-02-16
Convicting The Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong	Brandon L. Garrett	Richard C. Lewontin	2012-02-02
Genetic Justice: DNA Data Banks, Criminal Investigations, and Civil Liberties	Sheldon Krimsky and Tania Simoncelli	Richard C. Lewontin	2012-02-02
The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding	Sarah Burns	Richard C. Lewontin	2012-02-02
Majestie: The King Behind the King James Bible	David Teems	Robert Pogue Harrison	2012-01-19
Manifold Greatness: The Making of the King James Bible	edited by Helen Moore and Julian Reid	Robert Pogue Harrison	2012-01-19
On Eagles' Wings: The King James Bible Turns 400	edited by Liana Lupas	Robert Pogue Harrison	2012-01-19
The Apocryphal Gospels: Texts and Translations	edited by Bart D. Ehrman and Zlatko Pleše	Robert Pogue Harrison	2012-01-19
Bible: The Story of the King James Version, 1611–2011	Gordon Campbell	Robert Pogue Harrison	2012-01-19
The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible	Harold Bloom	Robert Pogue Harrison	2012-01-19

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