Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on The Fight for the Supreme Court
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Confirmation Bias
Discussed“Carl hul will join us to talk about his new book confirmation bias”
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In West Mills
Discussed“would you read for us from a section of n Mills just give us a little bit of the sense of setting where you are in the novel”
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The Woman Warrior
Book club“and she said I would like to choose Maxine Hong Kingston's Memoir the woman warrior”
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari is a thought-provoking exploration of humanity's most pressing contemporary challenges, ranging from technological disruption to political polarization.
Discussed“and this was a translation of his recent book 21 lessons for the 21st century in Russian”
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Gods of the Upper Air
Discussed“so this week I reviewed a book called gods of the upper air by Charles King who's a professor at Georgetown and it's a book that's essentially a group portrait of the Anthropologist France Boaz and his Circle”
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Our Women on the Ground
Discussed“it's called our women on the essays by Arab women reporting from the Arab world”
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Other mentions in this episode (9) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The House of Broken Angels
“now that we have finished reading House of broken Angels”
Passing Little Fires Everywhere
“and so we turned to Celeste ing a novelist best-selling novelist of little fires everywhere”
Passing Everything I never told you
“and I imagine that Celeste may also not only as a reader have felt Maxine Hong Kingston's influence but also as a novelist herself in her two books little fires everywhere and everything I Never Told You”
Passing Little Fires Everywhere
“and I imagine that Celeste may also not only as a reader have felt Maxine Hong Kingston's influence but also as a novelist herself in her two books little fires everywhere and everything I Never Told You”
Passing Sapiens
“so there was a bit of an outcry this week over a book by yval Noah Harari he's of course the famous author of sapiens”
Passing In West Mills
“Deshawn Charles Winslow is the author of in West Mills joining us”
Passing MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE
“this technique which allows Melville to write Moby Dick and wolf to write to the lighthouse”
Passing To the Lighthouse
“this technique which allows Melville to write Moby Dick and wolf to write to the lighthouse”
Passing Coming of age in Samoa
“and so you know for instance somebody like Margaret me she could actually go and talk to women and so you know her book coming of age and Samoa was really focusing on the adolescence and sexuality of young women”