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3,975 reviews · 1963–2026
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| Book Title | Author | Reviewer | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Cultural History of Postwar Japan: 1945–1980 | Shunsuke Tsurumi | Ian Buruma | 1988-03-17 |
| Occupation | John Toland | Ian Buruma | 1988-03-17 |
| Imperialist Japan: The Yen to Dominate | Michael Montgomery | Ian Buruma | 1988-03-17 |
| Pseudo-Science and Society in Nineteenth-Century America | edited by Arthur Wrobel | Martin Gardner | 1988-03-17 |
| Criminal Victimization in the United States, 1985: A National Crime Survey Report | a report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics | Andrew Hacker | 1988-03-03 |
| Crime in the United States | a report by the Federal Bureau of Investigation | Andrew Hacker | 1988-03-03 |
| Plural but Equal | Harold Cruse | Andrew Hacker | 1988-03-03 |
| The Afrocentric Idea | Molefi Kete Asante | Andrew Hacker | 1988-03-03 |
| Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations | Howard Schuman and Charlotte Steeh and Lawrence Bobo | Andrew Hacker | 1988-03-03 |
| Black Robes, White Justice | Bruce Wright | Andrew Hacker | 1988-03-03 |
| The Thinking Revolutionary: Principle and Practice in the New Republic | Ralph Lerner | Gordon S. Wood | 1988-02-18 |
| Taking the Constitution Seriously | Walter Berns | Gordon S. Wood | 1988-02-18 |
| Saving the Revolution: "The Federalist Papers" and The American Founding | edited by Charles R. Kesler | Gordon S. Wood | 1988-02-18 |
| The Moral Foundations of the American Republic | edited by Robert H. Horwitz | Gordon S. Wood | 1988-02-18 |
| The Framing and Ratification of the Constitution | edited by Leonard W. Levy | Gordon S. Wood | 1988-02-18 |
| The Founders' Constitution | edited by Philip B. Kurland | Gordon S. Wood | 1988-02-18 |
| Constitutionalism and Rights | edited by Gary C. Bryner | Gordon S. Wood | 1988-02-18 |
| The Complete Anti-Federalist | edited by Herbert J. Storing | Gordon S. Wood | 1988-02-18 |
| The American Founding: Politics, Statesmanship, and the Constitution | edited by Ralph A. Rossum | Gordon S. Wood | 1988-02-18 |
| Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years, 1903–1939 | Martin Stannard | Conor Cruise O’Brien | 1988-02-04 |
| Nietzsche: Life as Literature | Alexander Nehamas | William H. Gass | 1988-02-04 |
| Nietzsche, "the Last Antipolitical German" | Peter Bergmann | William H. Gass | 1988-02-04 |
| Postponements: Women, Sensuality, and Death in Nietzsche | David Farrell Krell | William H. Gass | 1988-02-04 |
| Conversations with Nietzsche: A Life in the Words of His Contemporaries | edited by Sander L. Gilman | William H. Gass | 1988-02-04 |
| Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits | Friedrich Nietzsche | William H. Gass | 1988-02-04 |
| The Cornell Wordsworth | edited by Stephen M. Parrish | Charles Rosen | 1987-12-17 |
| Lord Byron: The Complete Poetical Works | edited by Jerome J. McGann | Charles Rosen | 1987-12-17 |
| La Comédie humaine | published under the direction of Pierre-Georges Castex Honoré de Balzac | Charles Rosen | 1987-12-17 |
| The Neo-pagans: Rupert Brooke and the Ordeal of Youth | Paul Delany | John Bayley | 1987-12-17 |
| The State of Black America 1987 | edited by Janet Dewart | Andrew Hacker | 1987-12-03 |
| The Economic Progress of Black Men in America | US Commission on Civil Rights | Andrew Hacker | 1987-12-03 |
| The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy | William Julius Wilson | Andrew Hacker | 1987-12-03 |
| The New Black Middle Class | Bart Landry | Andrew Hacker | 1987-12-03 |
| Risking the Future: Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Childbearing | edited by Cheryl D. Haynes | Andrew Hacker | 1987-12-03 |
| Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change | Marian Wright Edelman | Andrew Hacker | 1987-12-03 |
| The Color Line and the Quality of Life in America | Reynolds Farley and Walter R. Allen | Andrew Hacker | 1987-12-03 |
| Montaigne in Motion | Jean Starobinski | Natalie Zemon Davis | 1987-11-19 |
| The Unicorn Expedition and Other Fantastic Tales of India | Satyajit Ray | Ian Buruma | 1987-11-19 |
| The Bottom Translation: Marlowe and Shakespeare and the Carnival Tradition | Jan Kott | Robert M. Adams | 1987-11-19 |
| The Lindbergh Case | Jim Fisher | Francis Russell | 1987-11-05 |
| The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students | Allan Bloom | Martha C. Nussbaum | 1987-11-05 |
| The Catholic Church in World Politics | Eric O. Hanson | J.M. Cameron | 1987-11-05 |
| Nuclear Deterrence, Morality and Realism | John Finnis and Joseph M. Boyle Jr. and Germain Grisez | J.M. Cameron | 1987-11-05 |
| Resources, Values and Development | Amartya Sen | A.B. Atkinson | 1987-10-22 |
| Choice, Welfare and Measurement | Amartya Sen | A.B. Atkinson | 1987-10-22 |
| On Reading Ruskin: Prefaces to 'La Bible d'Amiens' and 'Sésame et les Lys' with Selections from the Notes to the Translated Texts | Marcel Proust | Tim Hilton | 1987-10-22 |
| Conspiracy of Silence: The Secret Life of Anthony Blunt | Barrie Penrose and Simon Freeman | Noel Annan | 1987-10-22 |
| A History of the Jews | Paul Johnson | Arnaldo Momigliano | 1987-10-08 |
| Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women | Caroline Walker Bynum | Maurice Keen | 1987-10-08 |
| Waltzing with a Dictator: The Marcoses and the Making of American Policy | Raymond Bonner | Ian Buruma | 1987-08-13 |