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3,975 reviews · 1963–2026
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| Book Title | Author | Reviewer | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure | Kenneth Keniston. the Carnegie Council on Children | Christopher Lasch | 1977-11-24 |
| Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity laws, a volume of sermons and tractates, and a volume of contemporary commentary on the laws | Preface and Books I-V by Richard Hooker. The Folger Library Edition of the Works of Richard Hooker | Hugh Trevor-Roper | 1977-11-24 |
| The Origin of German Tragic Drama | Walter Benjamin | Charles Rosen | 1977-11-10 |
| Letters to an American Jewish Friend: A Zionist's Polemic | Hillel Halkin | Bernard Avishai | 1977-11-10 |
| The Origin of German Tragic Drama | Walter Benjamin | Charles Rosen | 1977-10-27 |
| Edward Gibbon and the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | edited by G.W. Bowersock | Ernst Badian | 1977-10-13 |
| Officer Down, Code Three 60176) | Pierce R. Brooks | Andrew Hacker | 1977-09-15 |
| The Growth of Crime: The International Experience | Leon Radzinowicz and Joan King | Andrew Hacker | 1977-09-15 |
| Police: Streetcorner Politicians | William Ker Muir Jr. | Andrew Hacker | 1977-09-15 |
| New York Cops Talk Back | Nicholas Alex | Andrew Hacker | 1977-09-15 |
| Thinking About Crime | James Q. Wilson | Andrew Hacker | 1977-09-15 |
| A Government As Good As Its People | Jimmy Carter | Nicholas von Hoffman | 1977-08-04 |
| Marathon: The Pursuit of the Presidency, 1972-1976 | Jules Witcover | Nicholas von Hoffman | 1977-08-04 |
| India: A Wounded Civilization | V.S. Naipaul | Robert Towers | 1977-07-14 |
| The Feminization of American Culture | Ann Douglas | Willie Lee Rose | 1977-07-14 |
| The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835 | Nancy F. Cott | Willie Lee Rose | 1977-07-14 |
| The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence | Carl Sagan | Stephen Toulmin | 1977-06-09 |
| Taking Rights Seriously | Ronald Dworkin | Marshall Cohen | 1977-05-26 |
| The Brotherhood of Oil: Energy Policy and the Public Interest | Robert Engler | Robert Lekachman | 1977-05-12 |
| Victorian Murderesses | Mary S. Hartman | Neal Ascherson | 1977-05-12 |
| Education and Politics at Harvard | Seymour Martin Lipset and David Riesman | Sigmund Diamond | 1977-04-28 |
| The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860 | Morton J. Horwitz | Eric Foner | 1977-04-14 |
| The Sovereign Ghost | Denis Donoghue | Michael Wood | 1977-04-14 |
| The Uses of Division | John Bayley | Michael Wood | 1977-04-14 |
| Spiritus Mundi | Northrop Frye | Michael Wood | 1977-04-14 |
| The Secular Scripture | Northrop Frye | Michael Wood | 1977-04-14 |
| The Fall of Public Man | Richard Sennett | Sheldon S. Wolin | 1977-04-14 |
| On Jews and Judaism in Crisis: Selected Essays | Gershom Scholem | Leon Wieseltier | 1977-04-14 |
| On Jews and Judaism in Crisis: Selected Essays | Gershom Scholem | Leon Wieseltier | 1977-03-31 |
| Early Greek Poetry and Philosophy | Hermann Fränkel | Seth Benardete | 1977-03-17 |
| Glas | Jacques Derrida | Michael Wood | 1977-03-03 |
| Of Grammatology | Jacques Derrida | Michael Wood | 1977-03-03 |
| Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist | W.A. Swanberg | William Phillips | 1977-03-03 |
| Cavafy's Alexandria: Study of a Myth in Progress | Edmund Keeley | Joseph Brodsky | 1977-02-17 |
| The English Catholic Community 1570-1850 | John Bossy | Lawrence Stone | 1977-02-03 |
| The New Columbia Encyclopedia | edited by William H. Harris | Anthony Quinton | 1977-02-03 |
| On Noam Chomsky: Critical Essays | edited by Gilbert Harman | Bernard Williams | 1976-11-11 |
| Reflections on Language | Noam Chomsky | Bernard Williams | 1976-11-11 |
| The Virgin | Geoffrey Ashe | Keith Thomas | 1976-11-11 |
| Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary | Marina Warner | Keith Thomas | 1976-11-11 |
| Vico and Herder: Two Studies in the History of Ideas | Isaiah Berlin | Arnaldo Momigliano | 1976-11-11 |
| The Thirteenth Tribe: The Khazar Empire and Its Heritage | Arthur Koestler | Leon Wieseltier | 1976-10-28 |
| The Evangelicals: What They Believe, Who They Are, Where They Are Changing | edited by David F. Wells | John H. Schaar | 1976-10-28 |
| The New Religious Consciousness | edited by Charles Y. Glock | John H. Schaar | 1976-10-28 |
| A Nation of Behavers | Martin E. Marty | John H. Schaar | 1976-10-28 |
| Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life | Gail Sheehy | Christopher Lasch | 1976-10-28 |
| Colloquium of the Seven about Secrets of the Sublime (Colloquium Heptaplomeres de Rerum Sublimium Arcanis Abditis) annotations, and critical readings by | Jean Bodin | Frances A. Yates | 1976-10-14 |
| Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution | Adrienne Rich | Helen Vendler | 1976-09-30 |
| Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism | Otto F. Kernberg MD | Christopher Lasch | 1976-09-30 |
| The Awareness Trap: Self-Absorption Instead of Social Change | Edwin Schur | Christopher Lasch | 1976-09-30 |