The New York Times Book Review

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The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America 6 reviews Cara Fitzpatrick Dale Russakoff
The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times 8 reviews Wolfram Eilenberger Jennifer Szalai
End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration 7 reviews Peter Turchin Francis Fukuyama
Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future 14 reviews Patrick J Deneen Jennifer Szalai
The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church 7 reviews Rachel L. Swarns David W. Blight
How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind 7 reviews Clancy Martin Alexandra Jacobs
Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope 12 reviews Sarah Bakewell Jennifer Szalai
Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy 6 reviews Alex Mar Kathryn Miles
How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind 7 reviews Regan Penaluna Becca Rothfeld
Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist 4 reviews Jennifer Wright Joanna Scutts
As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age 4 reviews Matthew Cobb Deborah Blum
The Philosophy of Modern Song 38 reviews Bob Dylan Dwight Garner
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners 6 reviews Margaret A. Burnham Jennifer Szalai
Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment 10 reviews Brad Snyder Jeffrey Rosen
Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution 7 reviews Nona Willis Aronowitz Jessica Bennett
The Prophet of the Andes: An Unlikely Journey to the Promised Land 5 reviews Graciela Mochkofsky Kat Rosenfield
The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century 8 reviews Jamie Susskind Adam Cohen
21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to Covid-19 7 reviews Ben S Bernanke David Leonhardt
Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life 16 reviews Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman Laura Miller
Liberalism and Its Discontents 15 reviews Francis Fukuyama Joe Klein
The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold 14 reviews Sam Knight W. M. Akers
William Blake vs. the World 7 reviews John Higgs Rosie Schaap
The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism 9 reviews Matthew Continetti Jonathan Rauch
Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History 5 reviews Vidya Krishnan Apoorva Mandavilli
The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy 11 reviews Christopher Leonard Adam Tooze
Manifesto: On Never Giving Up 18 reviews 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 5 reviews Linda Greenhouse Noah Feldman
On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times 6 reviews Michael Ignatieff Alexandra Jacobs
The Transcendentalists and Their World 11 reviews Robert A. Gross John Williams
The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America 10 reviews Noah Feldman Sean Wilentz
The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth 10 reviews Sam Quinones Casey Schwartz
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters 15 reviews Steven Pinker Anthony Gottlieb
The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade 5 reviews Benjamin T. Smith Anthony DePalma
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law 14 reviews Mary Roach Vicki Constantine Croke
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present 8 reviews Dara Horn Yaniv Iczkovitz
Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation 4 reviews Edward Glaeser and David Cutler Kate Ascher
The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War 8 reviews Craig Whitlock Fredrik Logevall
Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights 8 reviews Erwin Chemerinsky Melvin I. Urofsky
American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850 11 reviews Alan Taylor David S. Reynolds
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War 21 reviews Louis Menand David Oshinsky
Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said 21 reviews Timothy Brennan Ayten Tartici
Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights 6 reviews Ayaan Hirsi Ali Jill Filipovic
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need 11 reviews Bill Gates Bill McKibben
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song 9 reviews Henry Louis Gates Jr. Jon Meacham
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism 9 reviews Benjamin M. Friedman Alan Wolfe
The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution 11 reviews James Oakes Gordon S. Wood
Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life 13 reviews John Gray Jennifer Szalai
Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind 11 reviews Peter Godfrey-Smith Aimee Nezhukumatathil
The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again 14 reviews Robert D. Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett Robert Kuttner
Isolationism: A History of America's Efforts to Shield Itself from the World 4 reviews Charles A Kupchan Andrew J. Bacevich
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