Los Angeles Review of Books

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The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success 13 reviews Ross Douthat Joseph Hogan
Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century 7 reviews Sarah Abrevaya Stein Elaine Margolin
Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir 13 reviews Deirdre Bair Sophie Madeline Dess
On Immunity: An Inoculation 18 reviews Eula Biss Susan McCallum-Smith
On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal 13 reviews Naomi Klein Casey Williams
Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost 6 reviews Caitlin Zaloom Andrea Penman-Lomeli
The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite 10 reviews Daniel Markovits George Alliger
The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care 21 reviews Anne Boyer Emily LaBarge
The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care 21 reviews Anne Boyer Natasha Boyd
The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care 21 reviews Anne Boyer Hilary Plum
The Enigma of Clarence Thomas 11 reviews Corey Robin John W. W. Zeiser
A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind 5 reviews Harriet A. Washington Eisa Nefertari Ulen
Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism against Family 8 reviews Sophie Anne Lewis Madeline Lane-McKinley
How the Classics Made Shakespeare 5 reviews Jonathan Bate Rhodri Lewis
Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment 8 reviews Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Mark Trecka
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow 13 reviews Henry Louis Gates Robert D. Bland
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern 11 reviews Stephen Greenblatt Jim Hinch
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming 24 reviews David Wallace-Wells Roy Scranton
The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century 11 reviews Helena Rosenblatt Christine Dunn Henderson
American Cosmic: Ufos, Religion, Technology 10 reviews D. W. Pasulka Samuel Loncar
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power 15 reviews Shoshana Zuboff Nicholas Carr
K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher 11 reviews Mark Fisher Roger Luckhurst
These Truths: A History of the United States 22 reviews Jill Lepore Christine DeLucia
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America 18 reviews Beth Macy Philip Alcabes
Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard 6 reviews Cynthia L. Haven Christopher Shinn
The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis 16 reviews Martha C. Nussbaum Robert Zaretsky
The Ashtray (or the Man Who Denied Reality) 5 reviews Errol Morris Philip Kitcher
Chosen Country: A Rebellion in the West 9 reviews James Pogue Jennifer Kabat
Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World 8 reviews Samuel Moyn Nils Gilman
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership 16 reviews James B Comey Stephen Rohde
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos 6 reviews Jordan B. Peterson Houman Barekat
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner 16 reviews Daniel Ellsberg Daniel Bessner
The Evolution of Beauty 8 reviews Richard O. Prum Ethan Linck
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve 20 reviews Stephen Greenblatt Paul A. Kottman
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America 12 reviews Nancy MacLean Anita Felicelli
Henry David Thoreau: A Life 15 reviews Laura Dassow Walls Daegan Miller
The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao 9 reviews Ian Johnson Johan Elverskog
Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration—and How to Achieve Real Reform 5 reviews John F. Pfaff Josh Jacobs
Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein 5 reviews John Nixon Adam Fleming Petty
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness 16 reviews Peter Godfrey-Smith Marlene Zuk
American Philosophy: A Love Story 7 reviews John Kaag John F. Muller
The Angel of History 11 reviews Rabih Alameddine Noel Alumit
Looking for The Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic 5 reviews Alice Kaplan Robert Zaretsky
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics 8 reviews Carlo Rovelli Jennifer Carson
Between the World and Me 22 reviews Ta-Nehisi Coates Matthew Shenoda
The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture 8 reviews Pamela Haag Colin Dickey
Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion 7 reviews Susan Jacoby Jack Miles
When Breath Becomes Air 12 reviews Paul Kalanithi Jennifer R. Bernstein
Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind 6 reviews George Makari Owen Flanagan
Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age 6 reviews Sven Birkets Bill Capossere
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