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Book Title Author Reviewer Date
Out of Time David Klass Tom Nolan
The Multifarious Mr. Banks: From Botany Bay to Kew, the Natural Historian Who Shaped the World Toby Musgrave Christoph Irmscher
The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy Stephanie Kelton John H. Cochrane
Dante's Bones: How a Poet Invented Italy Guy P. Raffa Dan Hofstadter
The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes Zachary D Carter Benn Steil
Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World Jonathan Bate Brad Leithauser
What Stars Are Made of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Donovan Moore Marcia Bartusiak
Einstein in Bohemia Michael D Gordin Andrew Crumley
Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life John Kaag Heller McAlpin
The Death of Jesus J. M Coetzee Sam Sacks
Machiavelli: The Art of Teaching People What to Fear Patrick Boucheron Philip Delves Broughton
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari Charles C. Mann
A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution Jeremy Popkin Mark Molesky
Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness Philip Goff Julian Baggini
Great Society: A New History Amity Shlaes Michael Barone
Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century Sarah Abrevaya Stein Benjamin Balint
The History of Philosophy A. C. Grayling Nicholas Stang
Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution Myron Magnet Barton Swaim
Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir Deirdre Bair Heller McAlpin
None of Your Damn Business: Privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age Lawrence Cappello Adam J. White
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty Daron Acemoglu Joseph C. Sternberg
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine Michael Lewis Brian M. Carney
How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century Frank Dikötter Tunku Varadarajan
Our Great Purpose: Adam Smith on Living a Better Life Ryan Patrick Hanley David J. Davis
The Accusation: Blood Libel in an American Town Edward Berenson David Margolick
The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite Daniel Markovits Joseph Epstein
Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English Jonathan Rée Joseph Epstein
Equality: An American Dilemma, 1866-1896 Charles Postel Fergus M. Bordewich
Natural Rivals: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Creation of America's Public Lands John Clayton Gerard Helferich
The Adjunct Underclass: How America's Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission Herb Childress Barton Swaim
Grinnell: America's Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West John Taliaferro Andrew R. Graybill
The Body In Question Jill Ciment Sam Sacks
Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition Patricia Churchland Andrew Stark
How the Classics Made Shakespeare Jonathan Bate Elizabeth Winkler
The Unnamable Present Roberto Calasso, Trans. by Richard Dixon Dominic Green
Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History Richard Evans Richard Aldous
The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of Americ Daniel Okrent Stephen Budiansky
This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom Martin Hägglund Adam Kirsch
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief Lawrence Wright Paul Elie
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Siddhartha Mukherjee Laura Landro
Saint Patrick Retold: The Legend and History of Ireland's Patron Saint Roy Flechner Terry Golway
The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts Joan Biskupic Barton Swaim
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Daniel Immerwahr Jason Willick
Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely Andrew S. Curran Dan Hofstadter
We Want to Negotiate: The Secret World of Kidnapping, Hostages and Ransom Joel Simon Ann Toews
When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon Joshua D. Mezrich Laura Kolbe
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power Shoshana Zuboff Frank Rose
Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology Adrienne Mayor Peter Thonemann
Elizabeth Seton: American Saint Catherine O'Donnell Marc Arkin
Them: Why We Hate Each Other—And How to Heal Ben Sasse Barton Swaim
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