New York Journal of Books

44 reviews · 2019–2023

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Book Title Author Reviewer Date
What About Philosophy: An Illustrated Q&A Book for Kids Anne-Sophie Chillard and Jean-Chalres Pettier Marissa Moss 2023-05-15
The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century 37 reviews Amia Srinivasan Jane Haile 2022-12-12
Think Like a Feminist: The Philosophy Behind the Revolution Jane Haile 2020-10-12
Socrates in Love: The Making of a Philosopher 4 reviews Armand D'Angour Robert Davis 2019-05-13
The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 6 reviews Manisha Sinha Steve Nathans-Kelly
The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power 5 reviews Robert D Kaplan Francis P. Sempa
The Philosophy of Modern Song 38 reviews Bob Dylan Paul LaRosa
Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment 10 reviews Brad Snyder Joseph Barbato
The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America 10 reviews Noah Feldman Thomas McClung
The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth 10 reviews Sam Quinones Joseph Barbato
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War 21 reviews Louis Menand Joseph Barbato
How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart 10 reviews Jamal Greene Mike Farris
Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said 21 reviews Timothy Brennan Jonah Raskin
Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders 6 reviews Dennis C. Rasmussen Jerry Lenaburg
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need 11 reviews Bill Gates Walter Clemens
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song 9 reviews Henry Louis Gates Jr. Joseph Barbato
The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers 4 reviews Eric Weiner Lisa Guidarini
Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World 7 reviews Tara Isabella Burton Joan Burda
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 11 reviews Yuval Noah Harari Robert S. Davis
Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir 13 reviews Deirdre Bair Janet Levine
The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America 4 reviews Nicholas Buccola Steve Nathans-Kelly
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine 8 reviews Michael Lewis Daniel Feiman
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution 12 reviews Eric Foner Jonah Raskin
Alpha and Omega 4 reviews Harry Turtledove Carolyn Haley
The Enigma of Clarence Thomas 11 reviews Corey Robin Mike Farris
The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of Americ 11 reviews Daniel Okrent Steve Nathans-Kelly
Shakespeare's Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature 8 reviews Stuart Kells New York Journal of Books
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer 14 reviews Siddhartha Mukherjee Nicole Parker, Ph.D.
The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution 6 reviews Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett John L. Murphy PhD
The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts 11 reviews Joan Biskupic Mike Farris
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming 24 reviews David Wallace-Wells Craig R. Roach
The Rule of Law 7 reviews John Lescroart Michael J. McCann
Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely 11 reviews Andrew S. Curran Jonathan Power
When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon 7 reviews Joshua D. Mezrich Jacob M. Appel
American Cosmic: Ufos, Religion, Technology 10 reviews D. W. Pasulka Judith Reveal
The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread 8 reviews Cailin O'Connor and James Owen Weatherall Roger I. Abrams
Rival Queens: The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots 6 reviews Kate Williams Judith Reveal
Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel's Classroom 7 reviews Ariel Burger Elayne Clift
Shakespeare and the Resistance: The Earl of Southampton, the Essex Rebellion, and the Poems That Challenged Tudor Tyranny 4 reviews Clare Asquith Michael Thomas Barry
Napoleon: A Life 8 reviews Adam Zamoyski Francis P. Sempa
The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us about Ourselves 11 reviews Eric R. Kandel Carol Katz
Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment 16 reviews Francis Fukuyama Benjamin Knoll
Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science 8 reviews Karl Sigmund Robert Davis
The River of Consciousness 15 reviews Oliver Sacks Richard Cytowic