The New York Times Book Review

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The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times Wolfram Eilenberger Jennifer Szalai
End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration Peter Turchin Francis Fukuyama
Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future Patrick J Deneen Jennifer Szalai
The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church Rachel L. Swarns David W. Blight
How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind Clancy Martin Alexandra Jacobs
Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope Sarah Bakewell Jennifer Szalai
Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy Alex Mar Kathryn Miles
How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind Regan Penaluna Becca Rothfeld
Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist Jennifer Wright Joanna Scutts
As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age Matthew Cobb Deborah Blum
The Philosophy of Modern Song Bob Dylan Dwight Garner
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners Margaret A. Burnham Jennifer Szalai
Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment Brad Snyder Jeffrey Rosen
Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution Nona Willis Aronowitz Jessica Bennett
The Prophet of the Andes: An Unlikely Journey to the Promised Land Graciela Mochkofsky Kat Rosenfield
The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century Jamie Susskind Adam Cohen
21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to Covid-19 Ben S Bernanke David Leonhardt
Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman Laura Miller
Liberalism and Its Discontents Francis Fukuyama Joe Klein
The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold Sam Knight W. M. Akers
William Blake vs. the World John Higgs Rosie Schaap
The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism Matthew Continetti Jonathan Rauch
Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History Vidya Krishnan Apoorva Mandavilli
The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy Christopher Leonard Adam Tooze
Manifesto: On Never Giving Up Bernardine Evaristo Quiara Alegría Hudes
Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and Twelve Months That Transformed the Supreme Court Linda Greenhouse Noah Feldman
On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times Michael Ignatieff Alexandra Jacobs
The Transcendentalists and Their World Robert A. Gross John Williams
The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America Noah Feldman Sean Wilentz
The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth Sam Quinones Casey Schwartz
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters Steven Pinker Anthony Gottlieb
The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade Benjamin T. Smith Anthony DePalma
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law Mary Roach Vicki Constantine Croke
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present Dara Horn Yaniv Iczkovitz
Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation Edward Glaeser and David Cutler Kate Ascher
The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War Craig Whitlock Fredrik Logevall
Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights Erwin Chemerinsky Melvin I. Urofsky
American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850 Alan Taylor David S. Reynolds
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War Louis Menand David Oshinsky
Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said Timothy Brennan Ayten Tartici
Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights Ayaan Hirsi Ali Jill Filipovic
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need Bill Gates Bill McKibben
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song Henry Louis Gates Jr. Jon Meacham
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism Benjamin M. Friedman Alan Wolfe
The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution James Oakes Gordon S. Wood
Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life John Gray Jennifer Szalai
Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind Peter Godfrey-Smith Aimee Nezhukumatathil
The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again Robert D. Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett Robert Kuttner
Isolationism: A History of America's Efforts to Shield Itself from the World Charles A Kupchan Andrew J. Bacevich
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? Michael J. Sandel Arlie Russell Hochschild
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