Wildland by Evan Osnos
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A new investigation seeks to uncover the roots of a national rage.
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On the House by John Boehner
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Former Speaker of the House John Boehner writes a memoir that he intends to be full of cuss words and honesty. He succeeds at about 50% of that.
Read MoreFulfillment by Alec MacGillis
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A new book looks at the extent - and ruinous cost - of Amazon’s convenience.
Read MoreThe Crooked Path to Abolition by James Oakes
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A compact and fascinating examination of Abraham Lincoln’s antislavery evolution.
Read MoreIdi Amin by Mark Leopold
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The murderous Ugandan dictator gets a thorough-going new biographical investigation.
Read MoreThe Best Presidential Writing, edited by Craig Fehrman
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Presidential historian Craig Fehrman assembles some of the most memorable presidential writings.
Read MoreTen Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria
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Columnist and CNN anchor Fareed Zakaria speculates on the future of a plague-ravaged world.
Read MoreRage by Bob Woodward
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Celebrated journalist Bob Woodward’s already-infamous new book gives an inside look at the Trump White House.
Read MoreThe New Despotism by John Keane
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A politics professor puts forward a insightful, unsettling new concept of tyranny in the modern world.
Read MoreUnholy by Sarah Posner
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Sarah Posner’s book examines how American evangelicals can embrace a figure like Donald Trump
Read MoreThe Living Presidency by Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash
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A smart analysis of the growing power of the US Presidency - and a call to limit that power.
Read MoreCapital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty
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Is famous economist Thomas Piketty right about inequality? David Murphy dissects.
Read MoreFront Row at the Trump Show by Jonathan Karl
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ABC’s chief White House correspondent writes a book about the first three years of the Trump administration.
Read MoreThe Divided States of America by Donald Kettl
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Does the American system of government actually work? And if it doesn’t, is it trending toward something that does?
Read MoreDeaths of Despair by Anne Case & Angus Deaton
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The authors of this important new book argue that the main problem with capitalism isn’t that we live in an unequal society but that we live in an unfair one … but how sound are their points?
Read MoreBillionaire Wilderness by Justin Farrell
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A sociology professor investigates whether the spending habits of the super-wealthy in one Wyoming county can tell the rest of us anything important about American life.
Read MoreWhy We're Polarized by Ezra Klein
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Political pundit Ezra Klein attempts to get to the bottom of why American politics has become so bitterly divisive.
Read MoreA World Without Work by Daniel Susskind
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Daniel Susskind’s new book looks at how advances in automation will change the human work-force.
Read MoreA Very Stable Genius by Philip Rucker & Carol Leonnig
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Two Pulitzer Prize-winning go behind the scenes of the Trump White House and uncover exactly what you’d expect.
Read MoreThe Free-Market Family by Maxine Eichner
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Maxine Eichner’s new jeremiad against the brutalities of free market capitalism is pointed and angry - but is it true?
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