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Gilbert Cruz’s book recommendations in 2017

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The Fire Next Time

The Book Review · 2017-12-29

The Great Quake by Henry Fountain · discussed · at 0:19
Firestorm by Edward Struzik · discussed · at 0:57

Mary Beard on 'Women & Power'

The Book Review · 2017-12-15

Women and Power by Mary Beard · discussed · at 0:10
Why Comics? by Hillary Chute · discussed · at 0:22

The Second Coming of the KKK

The Book Review · 2017-12-08

The second coming of the KKK by Linda Gordon · recommended · at 0:13
Endurance by Scott Kelly · recommended · at 0:22
Autumn by Ali Smith · recommended · at 34:19
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid · recommended · at 34:22
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee · recommended · at 34:25
The Power by Naomi Alderman · recommended · at 34:27
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward · recommended · at 34:30
The Evolution of Beauty by Richard O. Prum · recommended · at 34:33
Grant by Ron Chernow · recommended · at 34:40
Locking up our own by James Forman · recommended · at 34:43
Prairie fires by Caroline Fraser · recommended · at 34:48
Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood · recommended · at 34:54

Kurt Andersen on Channeling President Trump

The Book Review · 2017-11-10

You Can't Spell America Without Me by Alec Baldwin · discussed · at 18:49
Code girls by Liza Mundy · discussed · at 19:08
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly · discussed · at 19:22

Marilyn Stasio on True Crime

The Book Review · 2017-10-27

The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater · discussed · at 4:36
Mad City by Michael Arntfield · discussed · at 5:59
Death in the Air by Kate Winkler Dawson · discussed · at 7:44
Black Dahlia, Red Rose by Piu Eatwell · discussed · at 9:53
Ballad of the Anarchist Bandits by John Merriman · discussed · at 14:11

Ron Chernow on 'Grant'

The Book Review · 2017-10-13

Grant by Ron Chernow · discussed · at 0:11
Greater Gotham by Mike Wallace · discussed · at 0:17
Gotham by Edwin G. Burrows · discussed · at 25:33

Jennifer Egan Talks About 'Manhattan Beach'

The Book Review · 2017-10-06

Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan · discussed · at 0:16
World Without Mind by Franklin Foer · discussed · at 0:31

Recent Romances

The Book Review · 2017-09-29

Deadly Rumors by Cheris Hodges · discussed · at 10:47

Jill Abramson on the 2016 Presidential Campaign

The Book Review · 2017-09-15

What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton · discussed · at 0:15
Living history by Hillary Rodham Clinton · discussed · at 29:46
Hard Choices by Hillary Clinton · discussed · at 29:49

Gorbachev: His Life and Times

The Book Review · 2017-09-08

Gorbachev by William Taubman · discussed · at 0:23
The Broken Earth Trilogy: The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin · discussed · at 0:35
Skylark by Dezső Kosztolányi · discussed · at 39:01
Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore · discussed · at 45:59

An American Abroad

The Book Review · 2017-09-01

Warner Bros by David Thomson · discussed · at 0:47

Analyzing Freud

The Book Review · 2017-08-18

Freud by Frederick Crews · discussed · at 0:17
Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean · discussed · at 0:36
The limits of liberty by James M. Buchanan · discussed · at 17:09

Steve Bannon's Road to the White House

The Book Review · 2017-07-21

Devil's Bargain by Joshua Green · discussed · at 0:10
The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich · discussed · at 0:26
Henry David Thoreau by Laura Dassow Walls · discussed · at 0:45

The World of Jane Austen Fans

The Book Review · 2017-07-14

Among The Janeites by Deborah Yaffe · discussed · at 0:00
Scandinavians by Robert Ferguson · discussed · at 0:28

The History of the London Zoo

The Book Review · 2017-07-07

Goosebumps by Robert Lawrence Stine · discussed · at 0:32

Silk on a Stick

The Book Review · 2017-06-30

A Flag Worth Dying For by Tim Marshall · discussed · at 0:10
The Politics and Ideology of Planning by Tim Marshall · discussed · at 0:10
Swell by Jill Eisenstadt · discussed · at 0:25
From Rockaway by Jill Eisenstadt · discussed · at 12:33

China's World

The Book Review · 2017-06-16

Everything under the heavens by Howard W. French · discussed · at 0:12
To Siri with Love by Judith Newman · discussed · at 19:37
Good Grief by Teresa Masters · discussed · at 20:48
Resilient Grieving by Lucy Hone · discussed · at 20:56
Getting Grief Right by Patrick O’Malley, Ph.D. · discussed · at 21:02
Halliwell's Film Guide by Leslie Halliwell · discussed · at 21:09
Extreme Measures by Jessica Nutik Zitter · discussed · at 21:15
The Bright Hour by Nina Riggs · discussed · at 32:07
The egg and I by Betty MacDonald · recommended · at 39:05

Al Franken on Life in the Senate

The Book Review · 2017-06-09

Al Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken · discussed · at 0:10
Churchill and Orwell by Thomas E. Ricks · discussed · at 0:23
The Adventures of Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey · discussed · at 0:40

David Sedaris Talks About His Diaries

The Book Review · 2017-06-02

Theft by Finding by David Sedaris · discussed · at 0:09
Cattle Kingdom by Christopher Knowlton · discussed · at 0:24

Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution

The Book Review · 2017-05-26

The death and life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan · discussed · at 0:30
1848 by Mike Rapport · discussed · at 1:14

Joshua Ferris on ‘The Dinner Party’

The Book Review · 2017-05-19

Move fast and break things by Jonathan Taplin · discussed · at 0:35
The dinner party and other stories by Joshua Ferris · discussed · at 1:21

Elizabeth Warren on Fighting for the Middle Class

The Book Review · 2017-05-12

This Fight Is Our Fight by Elizabeth Warren · discussed · at 5:33

Sheryl Sandberg on Life After Tragedy

The Book Review · 2017-04-28

Option B Facing Adversity Building Resilience and Finding Joy by Saraswati Biswas · discussed · at 0:11
Phenomena by Annie Jacobsen · discussed · at 0:39

Hamlet Globe to Globe

The Book Review · 2017-04-21

Hamlet Globe to globe by Dominic Dromgoole · recommended · at 0:16

Power and Punishment

The Book Review · 2017-04-14

A Colony in a Nation by Chris Hayes · discussed · at 1:01

The Charm of 'The Idiot'

The Book Review · 2017-03-31

The Idiot by Elif Batuman · discussed · at 0:00
The Possessed by Elif Batuman · discussed · at 27:45
The Idiot by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский · discussed · at 29:48

'Ties' to Ferrante?

The Book Review · 2017-03-24

Ties by Domenico Starnone · discussed · at 0:09
Teeth by Mary Otto · discussed · at 0:37
In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri · discussed · at 8:10
The destiny of the republic by Candice Millard · recommended · at 44:52

The Definition of Adulthood

The Book Review · 2017-03-17

The Gene Machine by Bonnie Rochman · discussed · at 0:36

Points of No Return

The Book Review · 2017-03-10

EXIT WEST by Moshin Hamid · discussed · at 0:21
Divided we stand by Marjorie Julian Spruill · discussed · at 0:45
Hillbilly Elegy by J D Vance · discussed · at 30:39

Happy Trails

The Book Review · 2017-03-03

The Nature Fix by Florence Williams · discussed · at 0:09
Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez · discussed · at 27:17
Savage theories by Pola Oloixarac · discussed · at 28:15

Neil Gaiman's Myths

The Book Review · 2017-02-17

Autumn by Ali Smith · discussed · at 20:22
How to Be Both by Ali Smith · discussed · at 20:32
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley · discussed · at 27:32
Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton · discussed · at 46:08

George Saunders on Lincoln and Lost Souls

The Book Review · 2017-02-10

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders · discussed · at 0:01
Why time flies by Alan Burdick · discussed · at 0:29

A Brave Look at Depression

The Book Review · 2017-02-03

This Close to Happy by Daphne Merkin · recommended · at 0:07
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee · recommended · at 0:37

Barack Obama's Legacy

The Book Review · 2017-01-20

Audacity by Jonathan Chait · discussed · at 0:05
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin · discussed · at 0:20
The Book That Changed America by Randall Fuller · discussed · at 0:24

Edward Snowden: Hero, Traitor or Spy?

The Book Review · 2017-01-13

How America lost its secrets by Edward Jay Epstein · discussed · at 0:09

Should You Stop Eating Sugar?

The Book Review · 2017-01-06

The case against sugar by Gary Taubes · discussed · at 0:08
Why we get fat by Gary Taubes · discussed · at 1:12

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