Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-10-17
Books mentioned on Can the Israel-Hamas Deal Hold? | The Ezra Klein Show
Ezra Klein discussed Tomorrow Is Yesterday by Hussein Agha and others. Rob Malley recommended One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad, Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe, No Exit, and Three Other Plays Flies The Dirty Hands Respectful Prostitute The by Jean-Paul Sartre, and The Just by Albert Camus. Hussein Agha recommended History of the Peloponnesian War, The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil, and Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Tomorrow Is Yesterday
Tomorrow Is Yesterday by Hussein Agha and Robert Malley is a critical analysis of Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations and the strategic missteps made by international diplomats and U.S.
Discussed“The two of them together have written a fantastic new book called Tomorrow is Yesterday.”
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad is a powerful, award-winning book of nonfiction that confronts urgent contemporary political realities, moral compromises, and historical reckonings.
Recommended“Well, actually four if I can, but one book that has everything to do with what we've been discussing and who's I think it's his its title alone deserves a prize is one day everyone will always have been against us by Omar Akad.”
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Say Nothing
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe is a true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland that investigates political violence, justice, and the heavy personal cost of what individuals kill and die for.
Recommended“A second book that doesn't appear to have much to do with our discussion, but actually really does. It's about Northern Ireland, the dilemmas of struggle and justice and what one kills and dies for. And that's, uh, Say Nothing by Patrick Rat and Keefe.”
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No Exit, and Three Other Plays Flies The Dirty Hands Respectful Prostitute The
No Exit, and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre is a classic collection of existentialist dramas exploring human relationships, morality, and the consequences of freedom.
Recommended“They're two two plays in kind of conversation with each other. And yet they too have everything to do with the subtext that we've been talking about and the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. The price of loyalty of conviction and justice. Dirty Hands by Jean Paul Sart and Albert Kermuse The Just Assassins”
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The Just
The Just by Albert Camus is a powerful philosophical play that examines the moral complexities, motivations, and ethical boundaries of political violence and revolution.
Recommended“They're two two plays in kind of conversation with each other. And yet they too have everything to do with the subtext that we've been talking about and the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. The price of loyalty of conviction and justice. Dirty Hands by Jean Paul Sart and Albert Kermuse The Just Assassins”
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History of the Peloponnesian War
History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides is a classical historical chronicling of the intense conflict between Athens and Sparta in ancient Greece.
Recommended“So therefore I'm going to suggest a rereading of tusidits the pelponyian wars that explain to you really very accurately very much of the processes that are taking place now.”
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The Man Without Qualities
The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil is a sprawling, unfinished modernist novel set in Vienna on the eve of the First World War, exploring the moral and intellectual decay of the Austro-Hungarian Empire through the experiences of its detached protagonist, Ulrich.
Recommended“The other book that I will recommend is The Man Without Qualities by Robert Mucil.”
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Hollywood Babylon
Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger is a notorious chronicle of scandals, gossip, and alleged corruption during the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Recommended“The third book for comic relief is um it's a book that I enjoy reading every now and then even though it's debunked and everybody says it's it's nonsense is Kenneth Angler's Hollywood Babylon.”
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