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| “The Ezra Klein Show” explores ideas with some of today’s most dynamic thinkers. We cover politics, culture, history, philosophy, psychology, technology and more. The topics are wide-ranging, but every episode ends with Ezra asking his guest (or guests) to recommend a few books that have shaped their thinking. Below is a list of all the books recommended on the show in 2021, in reverse-chronological order. | “The Ezra Klein Show” explores ideas with some of today’s most dynamic thinkers. We cover politics, culture, history, philosophy, psychology, technology and more. The topics are wide-ranging, but every episode ends with Ezra asking his guest (or guests) to recommend a few books that have shaped their thinking. Below is a list of all the books recommended on the show in 2021, in reverse-chronological order. |
| You can view book recommendations from the latest episodes here. Listen to and follow “The Ezra Klein Show” on Apple, Spotify, Google or wherever you get your podcasts. | You can view book recommendations from the latest episodes here. Listen to and follow “The Ezra Klein Show” on Apple, Spotify, Google or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| Timeless Wisdom for Leading a Life of Love, Friendship and Learning (Dec. 14, 2021) | Timeless Wisdom for Leading a Life of Love, Friendship and Learning (Dec. 14, 2021) |
| “Nicomachean Ethics” by Aristotle | “Nicomachean Ethics” by Aristotle |
| The Hebrew Bible, especially Genesis and Exodus | The Hebrew Bible, especially Genesis and Exodus |
| “Democracy in America” by Alexis de Tocqueville | “Democracy in America” by Alexis de Tocqueville |
| “Daniel Deronda” by George Eliot | “Daniel Deronda” by George Eliot |
| Every 8 Seconds, an American Turns 65. How Do We Care for Everyone? (Dec. 7, 2021) | Every 8 Seconds, an American Turns 65. How Do We Care for Everyone? (Dec. 7, 2021) |
| “The Sum of Us” by Heather McGhee | “The Sum of Us” by Heather McGhee |
| “Caste” by Isabel Wilkerson | “Caste” by Isabel Wilkerson |
| “Being Mortal” by Atul Gawande | “Being Mortal” by Atul Gawande |
| Predicting the Future Is Possible. These ‘Superforecasters’ Know How. (Dec. 3, 2021) | Predicting the Future Is Possible. These ‘Superforecasters’ Know How. (Dec. 3, 2021) |
| “Thinking, Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman | “Thinking, Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman |
| “Enlightenment Now” by Steven Pinker | “Enlightenment Now” by Steven Pinker |
| “Perception and Misperception in International Politics” by Robert Jervis | “Perception and Misperception in International Politics” by Robert Jervis |
| Why Is Murder Spiking? And Can Cities Address It Without Police? (Nov. 23, 2021) | Why Is Murder Spiking? And Can Cities Address It Without Police? (Nov. 23, 2021) |
| “The Stickup Kids” by Randol Contreras | “The Stickup Kids” by Randol Contreras |
| “The Truly Disadvantaged” by William Julius Wilson | “The Truly Disadvantaged” by William Julius Wilson |
| “Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse | “Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse |
| The Case Against Loving Your Job (Nov. 19, 2021) | The Case Against Loving Your Job (Nov. 19, 2021) |
| “Lost in Work” by Amelia Horgan | “Lost in Work” by Amelia Horgan |
| “Farewell to the Factory” by Ruth Milkman | “Farewell to the Factory” by Ruth Milkman |
| “Confessions of the Fox” by Jordy Rosenberg | “Confessions of the Fox” by Jordy Rosenberg |
| How Far-Right Extremism Invaded Mainstream Politics (Nov. 16, 2021) | How Far-Right Extremism Invaded Mainstream Politics (Nov. 16, 2021) |
| “Fortress America” by Elaine Tyler May | “Fortress America” by Elaine Tyler May |
| “Future Home of the Living God” by Louise Erdrich | “Future Home of the Living God” by Louise Erdrich |
| “Tiny You” by Jennifer Holland | “Tiny You” by Jennifer Holland |
| The Mainstream Media Has a Republican Party Problem (Nov. 12, 2021) | The Mainstream Media Has a Republican Party Problem (Nov. 12, 2021) |
| “The Boys on the Bus” by Timothy Crouse | “The Boys on the Bus” by Timothy Crouse |
| “Making News” by Gaye Tuchman | “Making News” by Gaye Tuchman |
| “Deciding What’s News” by Herbert Gans | “Deciding What’s News” by Herbert Gans |
| Two Acclaimed Writers on the Art of Revising Your Life (Nov. 9, 2021) | Two Acclaimed Writers on the Art of Revising Your Life (Nov. 9, 2021) |
| “South to America” by Imani Perry | “South to America” by Imani Perry |
| “Shoutin’ in the Fire” by Danté Stewart | “Shoutin’ in the Fire” by Danté Stewart |
| “Abolition for the People” by Colin Kaepernick | “Abolition for the People” by Colin Kaepernick |
| The Life-Altering Differences Between White and Black Debt (Nov. 2, 2021) | The Life-Altering Differences Between White and Black Debt (Nov. 2, 2021) |
| “The Color of Money” by Mehrsa Baradaran | “The Color of Money” by Mehrsa Baradaran |
| “A Pound of Flesh” by Alexes Harris | “A Pound of Flesh” by Alexes Harris |
| “The Sum of Us” by Heather McGhee | “The Sum of Us” by Heather McGhee |
| Why This Conservative Wants a More Radical Republican Party (Oct. 29, 2021) | Why This Conservative Wants a More Radical Republican Party (Oct. 29, 2021) |
| “The Adventures of Tintin” by Hergé | “The Adventures of Tintin” by Hergé |
| “The Charterhouse of Parma” by Stendhal | “The Charterhouse of Parma” by Stendhal |
| “The Gnostic Religion” by Hans Jonas | “The Gnostic Religion” by Hans Jonas |
| What Living ‘At the Edge of Medical Knowledge’ Reveals about American Healthcare (Oct. 26, 2021) | What Living ‘At the Edge of Medical Knowledge’ Reveals about American Healthcare (Oct. 26, 2021) |
| “The Journal of a Disappointed Man” by W.N.P. Barbellion | “The Journal of a Disappointed Man” by W.N.P. Barbellion |
| “On Immunity” by Eula Biss | “On Immunity” by Eula Biss |
| “The Cancer Journals” by Audre Lorde | “The Cancer Journals” by Audre Lorde |
| What Keeping American Democracy Alive Looks Like (Oct. 22, 2021) | What Keeping American Democracy Alive Looks Like (Oct. 22, 2021) |
| “All That She Carried” by Tiya Miles | “All That She Carried” by Tiya Miles |
| “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois” by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers | “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois” by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers |
| “Thick” by Tressie McMillan Cottom | “Thick” by Tressie McMillan Cottom |
| Why Does It Have to Be Slaveholders That We Unite Around?(Oct. 19, 2021) | Why Does It Have to Be Slaveholders That We Unite Around?(Oct. 19, 2021) |
| “A Midwife’s Tale” by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich | “A Midwife’s Tale” by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
| “The Negro in the American Revolution” by Benjamin Quarles | “The Negro in the American Revolution” by Benjamin Quarles |
| “Rebecca’s Revival” by Jon F. Sensbach | “Rebecca’s Revival” by Jon F. Sensbach |
| A Crypto Optimist Meets a Crypto Skeptic (Oct. 15, 2021) | A Crypto Optimist Meets a Crypto Skeptic (Oct. 15, 2021) |
| “The Company” by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge | “The Company” by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge |
| “My Life in Full” by Indra Nooyi | “My Life in Full” by Indra Nooyi |
| “Palace Walk” by Naguib Mahfouz | “Palace Walk” by Naguib Mahfouz |
| Lessons on Living Well, From Nick Offerman (Oct. 12, 2021) | Lessons on Living Well, From Nick Offerman (Oct. 12, 2021) |
| “Fidelity” by Wendell Berry | “Fidelity” by Wendell Berry |
| “Wanderlust” by Rebecca Solnit | “Wanderlust” by Rebecca Solnit |
| “Girls and Sex” by Peggy Orenstein | “Girls and Sex” by Peggy Orenstein |
| “Boys and Sex” by Peggy Orenstein | “Boys and Sex” by Peggy Orenstein |
| What if We’ll Never Truly Be Free? (Oct. 8, 2021) | What if We’ll Never Truly Be Free? (Oct. 8, 2021) |
| “Possibilities” by David Graeber | “Possibilities” by David Graeber |
| “Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments” by Saidiya Hartman | “Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments” by Saidiya Hartman |
| “The Force of Nonviolence” by Judith Butler | “The Force of Nonviolence” by Judith Butler |
| Warning: This Episode Gets Really Weird About How Much Good You Can Do (Oct. 5, 2021) | Warning: This Episode Gets Really Weird About How Much Good You Can Do (Oct. 5, 2021) |
| “Due Diligence” by David Roodman | “Due Diligence” by David Roodman |
| “The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers” by Robert L. Kelly | “The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers” by Robert L. Kelly |
| “The Precipice” by Toby Ord | “The Precipice” by Toby Ord |
| ‘We’ve Become Too Complicated’: Where Eric Adams Thinks Democrats Went Wrong (Oct. 1, 2021) | ‘We’ve Become Too Complicated’: Where Eric Adams Thinks Democrats Went Wrong (Oct. 1, 2021) |
| “Healthy At Last” by Eric Adams | “Healthy At Last” by Eric Adams |
| “Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself” by Joe Dispenza | “Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself” by Joe Dispenza |
| “You Are The Placebo” by Joe Dispenza | “You Are The Placebo” by Joe Dispenza |
| “Upstream” by Dan Heath | “Upstream” by Dan Heath |
| “Atomic Habits” by James Clear | “Atomic Habits” by James Clear |
| Richard Powers on What We Can Learn from Trees (Sept. 28, 2021) | Richard Powers on What We Can Learn from Trees (Sept. 28, 2021) |
| “How to Be Animal” by Melanie Challenger | “How to Be Animal” by Melanie Challenger |
| “Rooted” by Lyanda Lynn Haupt | “Rooted” by Lyanda Lynn Haupt |
| “Ever Green” by John W. Reid and Thomas E. Lovejoy | “Ever Green” by John W. Reid and Thomas E. Lovejoy |
| We’re on the Precipice of a Post-Roe World (Sept. 21, 2021) | We’re on the Precipice of a Post-Roe World (Sept. 21, 2021) |
| “How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics” by Laura Briggs | “How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics” by Laura Briggs |
| “Killing for Life” by Carol Mason | “Killing for Life” by Carol Mason |
| “Radical Reproductive Justice,” edited by Loretta J. Ross, Lynn Roberts, Erika Derkas, Whitney Peoples, and Pamela Bridgewater | “Radical Reproductive Justice,” edited by Loretta J. Ross, Lynn Roberts, Erika Derkas, Whitney Peoples, and Pamela Bridgewater |
| Covid Showed Us What Keynes Always Knew (Sept. 17, 2021) | Covid Showed Us What Keynes Always Knew (Sept. 17, 2021) |
| “The Deficit Myth” by Stephanie Kelton | “The Deficit Myth” by Stephanie Kelton |
| “Stalingrad” by Vasily Grossman | “Stalingrad” by Vasily Grossman |
| “Essays in Persuasion” by John Maynard Keynes | “Essays in Persuasion” by John Maynard Keynes |
| How Colson Whitehead Writes About Our ‘Big Wild Country’ (Sept. 14, 2021) | How Colson Whitehead Writes About Our ‘Big Wild Country’ (Sept. 14, 2021) |
| “Love Goes to Buildings” on Fire by Will Hermes | “Love Goes to Buildings” on Fire by Will Hermes |
| “The Buddha in the Attic” by Julie Otsuka | “The Buddha in the Attic” by Julie Otsuka |
| “When the Emperor Was Divine” by Julie Otsuka | “When the Emperor Was Divine” by Julie Otsuka |
| “Mad As Hell” by Dave Itzkoff | “Mad As Hell” by Dave Itzkoff |
| Can We Change Our Sexual Desires? Should We? (Sept. 7, 2021) | Can We Change Our Sexual Desires? Should We? (Sept. 7, 2021) |
| “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around” by Alethia Jones and Virginia Eubanks, with Barbara Smith | “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around” by Alethia Jones and Virginia Eubanks, with Barbara Smith |
| “Revolting Prostitutes” by Juno Mac and Molly Smith | “Revolting Prostitutes” by Juno Mac and Molly Smith |
| “Feminist International” by Verónica Gago, translated by Liz Mason-Deese | “Feminist International” by Verónica Gago, translated by Liz Mason-Deese |
| This Isn’t Your Grandpa’s Joe Biden (Sept. 3, 2021) | This Isn’t Your Grandpa’s Joe Biden (Sept. 3, 2021) |
| “Undoing the Demos” by Wendy Brown | “Undoing the Demos” by Wendy Brown |
| “The End of the Myth” by Greg Grandin | “The End of the Myth” by Greg Grandin |
| “Difference Without Domination” by Danielle Allen and Rohini Somanathan | “Difference Without Domination” by Danielle Allen and Rohini Somanathan |
| My Reading Habits, Explained, and Other Questions You Asked (Aug. 31, 2021) | My Reading Habits, Explained, and Other Questions You Asked (Aug. 31, 2021) |
| “Here We Are” by Oliver Jeffers | “Here We Are” by Oliver Jeffers |
| “Cars and Trucks and Things That Go” by Richard Scarry | “Cars and Trucks and Things That Go” by Richard Scarry |
| “Happy Birthday to You!” by Dr. Seuss | “Happy Birthday to You!” by Dr. Seuss |
| The Foreign Policy Conversation Washington Doesn’t Want to Have (Aug. 27, 2021) | The Foreign Policy Conversation Washington Doesn’t Want to Have (Aug. 27, 2021) |
| “The Best and the Brightest” by David Halberstam | “The Best and the Brightest” by David Halberstam |
| “The Hell of Good Intentions” by Stephen Walt | “The Hell of Good Intentions” by Stephen Walt |
| “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley | “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley |
| This Conversation Will Change How You Think About Trauma (August 24, 2021) | This Conversation Will Change How You Think About Trauma (August 24, 2021) |
| “The Apology” by V | “The Apology” by V |
| “Love in Goon Park” by Deborah Blum | “Love in Goon Park” by Deborah Blum |
| “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” by Richard Flanagan | “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” by Richard Flanagan |
| How Identity Politics Took Over the Republican Party (Aug. 13, 2021) | How Identity Politics Took Over the Republican Party (Aug. 13, 2021) |
| “Reconstruction” by Eric Foner | “Reconstruction” by Eric Foner |
| “Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880” by W. E. B. Du Bois | “Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880” by W. E. B. Du Bois |
| “Children of Blood and Bone” by Tomi Adeyemi | “Children of Blood and Bone” by Tomi Adeyemi |
| “The City We Became” by N. K. Jemisin | “The City We Became” by N. K. Jemisin |
| What Trump Understood About the War on Terror That Others Missed (Aug. 10, 2021) | What Trump Understood About the War on Terror That Others Missed (Aug. 10, 2021) |
| “American War” by Omar El Akkad | “American War” by Omar El Akkad |
| “The Jakarta Method” by Vincent Bevins | “The Jakarta Method” by Vincent Bevins |
| “Overheated” by Kate Aronoff | “Overheated” by Kate Aronoff |
| “The New Gods” by Jack Kirby | “The New Gods” by Jack Kirby |
| “Lazarus” by Greg Rucka and Michael Lark | “Lazarus” by Greg Rucka and Michael Lark |
| “Rise of the Black Panther” by Evan Narcisse and Ta-Nehisi Coates | “Rise of the Black Panther” by Evan Narcisse and Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| The Good and Bad News About the Delta Variant (Aug. 6, 2021) | The Good and Bad News About the Delta Variant (Aug. 6, 2021) |
| “Wired for Culture” by Mark Pagel | “Wired for Culture” by Mark Pagel |
| “Rule Makers, Rule Breakers” by Michele Gelfand | “Rule Makers, Rule Breakers” by Michele Gelfand |
| “Stuck” by Heidi J. Larson | “Stuck” by Heidi J. Larson |
| This Conversation Changed the Way I Interact With Technology (Aug. 3, 2021) | This Conversation Changed the Way I Interact With Technology (Aug. 3, 2021) |
| “Tools for Conviviality” by Ivan Illich | “Tools for Conviviality” by Ivan Illich |
| “The Human Condition” by Hannah Arendt | “The Human Condition” by Hannah Arendt |
| “Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life” by Albert Borgmann | “Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life” by Albert Borgmann |
| What’s Really Behind the 1619 Backlash? (July 30, 2021) | What’s Really Behind the 1619 Backlash? (July 30, 2021) |
| “Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880” by W. E. B. Du Bois | “Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880” by W. E. B. Du Bois |
| “The Warmth of Other Suns” by Isabel Wilkerson | “The Warmth of Other Suns” by Isabel Wilkerson |
| “Postwar” by Tony Judt | “Postwar” by Tony Judt |
| “Avengers of the New World” by Laurent Dubois | “Avengers of the New World” by Laurent Dubois |
| Ross Douthat Has Been ‘Radicalized a Little Bit, Too’ (July 27, 2021) | Ross Douthat Has Been ‘Radicalized a Little Bit, Too’ (July 27, 2021) |
| “Crucible of War” by Fred Anderson | |
| “Champlain’s Dream” by David Hackett Fischer | |
| “Mom Genes” by Abigail Tucker | |
| How Blue Cities Became So Outrageously Affordable (July 23, 2021) | |
| “Golden Gates” by Conor Dougherty | |
| “The Dispossessed” by Ursula Le Guin | |
| “Stories of Your Life and Others” by Ted Chiang | |
| This Conversation Will Change How You Think About Thinking (July 20, 2021) | |
| “Supersizing the Mind” by Andy Clark | |
| “Mind in Motion” by Barbara Tversky | |
| “Thoughts Without a Thinker” by Mark Epstein | |
| Ibram X. Kendi on What Conservatives—and Liberals—Get Wrong About Antiracism (July 16, 2021) | |
| “Dying of Whiteness” by Jonathan M. Metzl | |
| “The Sum of Us” by Heather McGhee | |
| “Race for Profit” by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor | |
| How Octopuses Upend What We Know About Ourselves (July 13, 2021) | |
| “The Outermost House” by Henry Beston | |
| “The Old Way” by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas | |
| “King Solomon’s Ring” by Konrad Lorenz | |
| Critical Race Theory, Comic Books and the Power of Public Schools (July 9, 2021) | |
| “Chlorine Sky” by Mahogany L. Browne | |
| “Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration” by Reuben Jonathan Miller | |
| “Severance” by Ling Ma | |
| Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy Wants You to Be Bad at Something. It’s for Your Own Good. (July 2, 2021) | |
| “Don Quixote” by Miguel de Cervantes | |
| “A Temple of Texts” and other work by William H. Gass | |
| Why Do We Work So Damn Much? (June 29, 2021) | |
| “King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa” by Adam Hochschild | |
| “Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures” by Merlin Sheldrake | |
| “Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea and the Deep Origins of Consciousness” by Peter Godfrey-Smith | |
| Republicans Are Setting Off a Doom Loop for Democracy (June 25, 2021) | |
| “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” by John Le Carré | |
| “Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory” by David Blight | |
| “Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America” by Eyal Press | |
| Sarah Schulman’s Radical Approach to Conflict, Communication and Change (June 22, 2021) | |
| “Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University” by Matt Brim | |
| “Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote and Insisted on Equality for All” by Martha S. Jones | |
| “Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir” by Natasha Trethewey | |
| Welcome to the ‘Take This Job and Shove It’ Economy (June 18, 2021) | |
| “Klara and the Sun” by Kazuo Ishiguro | |
| “The Undercover Economist Strikes Back” by Tim Harford | |
| “Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity” by Claudia Goldin | |
| The Freeing of the American Mind (June 15, 2021) | |
| “Tristes Tropiques” by Claude Lévi-Strauss | |
| “Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945” by Tony Judt | |
| “Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years With Cage and Cunningham” by Carolyn Brown | |
| Sam Altman on the A.I. Revolution, Trillionaires and the Future of Political Power (June 11, 2021) | |
| “Crystal Nights” by Greg Egan | |
| “The Last Question” by Isaac Asimov | |
| “The Gentle Seduction” by Marc Stiegler | |
| Employers Are Begging for Workers. Maybe That’s a Good Thing. (June 8, 2021) | |
| “Halfway Home” by Reuben Miller | |
| “Root Shock” by Mindy Fullilove | |
| “Poorly Understood” by Mark Rank, Lawrence Eppard and Heather Bullock | |
| If ‘All Models Are Wrong,’ Why Do We Give Them So Much Power? (June 4, 2021) | |
| “What to Expect When You’re Expecting Robots” by Julie Shah and Laura Major | |
| “Finite and Infinite Games” by James P. Carse | |
| “How to Do Nothing” by Jenny Odell | |
| Obama Explains How America Went From ‘Yes We Can’ to ‘MAGA’ (June 1, 2021) | |
| “The Overstory” by Richard Powers | |
| “Memorial Drive” by Natasha Tretheway | |
| Violent Crime Is Spiking. Do Liberals Have an Answer? (May 21, 2021) | |
| “Ghettoside” by Jill Leovy | |
| “Becoming Ms. Burton” by Susan Burton and Cari Lynn | |
| “The Condemnation of Blackness” by Khalil Gibran Muhammad | |
| The Spectacle of the G.O.P.’s Shrinking Tent (May 18, 2021) | |
| “Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America” by Kathleen Belew | |
| “Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex and Gender in the Twentieth Century” by Charles King | |
| “The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr. and the Debate Over Race in America” by Nicholas Buccola | |
| Status Games, Polyamory and the Merits of Meritocracy (May 14, 2021) | |
| “Tolstoy: A Russian Life” by Rosamund Bartlett | |
| “Pessoa: A Biography” by Richard Zenith | |
| “Augustine of Hippo” by Peter Brown | |
| Michael Lewis Is Asking the Right Question (May 11, 2021) | |
| “Klara and the Sun” by Kazuo Ishiguro | |
| “Young Men and Fire” by Norman McLean | |
| “Furious Hours” by Casey Cep | |
| Elizabeth Warren on What We Get Wrong About Inequality (May 7, 2021) | |
| “Heart of Fire” by Mazie Hirono | |
| “Before the Coffee Gets Cold” by Toshikazu Kawaguchi | |
| “John Rain” series by Barry Eisler | |
| How to Have Better Conversations About Hard Things (May 4, 2021) | |
| “Death in Mud Lick” by Eric Eyre | |
| “Crying in H Mart” by Michelle Zauner | |
| “The Secret to Superhuman Strength” by Alison Bechdel | |
| How Chuck Schumer Plans to Win Over Trump Voters (April 30, 2021) | |
| “Grant” by Ron Chernow | |
| “Freedom” by William Safire | |
| “The Power Broker” by Robert Caro | |
| Shame, Safety and Moving Beyond Cancel Culture (April 27, 2021) | |
| “Conflict Is Not Abuse” by Sarah Schulman | |
| “The Tao Is Silent” by Raymond Smullyan | |
| Noam Chomsky on Anarchism, Human Nature and Joe Biden (April 23, 2021) | |
| “The Last of the Just” by Andre Schwarz-Bart | |
| “All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw” by Theodore Rosengarten | |
| Selected essays by Ahad Ha’am | |
| That Anxiety You’re Feeling? It’s a Habit You Can Unlearn. (April 20, 2021) | |
| “The Art of Racing in the Rain” by Garth Stein | |
| “Barbarian Days” by William Finnegan | |
| “The Underground Railroad” by Colson Whitehead | |
| Why Adults Lose the ‘Beginner’s Mind’ (April 16, 2021) | |
| “Where the Wild Things Are” by Maurice Sendak | |
| “Mary Poppins in the Park” by P.L. Travers | |
| “The Children of Green Knowe” by L.M. Boston | |
| Your Success Probably Didn’t Come From Merit Alone (April 13, 2021) | |
| “Minor Feelings” by Cathy Park Hong | |
| “Fearing the Black Body” by Sabrina Strings | |
| “The Chosen” by Jerome Karabel | |
| “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry” by Mildred Taylor | |
| Did the Boomers Ruin America? A Debate. (April 6, 2021) | |
| “The Culture of Narcissism” by Christopher Lasch | |
| “Can’t Even” by Anne Helen Petersen | |
| “Goodnight Moon” by Margaret Wise Brown | |
| “A Tale of Two Utopias” by Paul Berman | |
| “Coming of Age on Zoloft” by Katherine Sharpe | |
| “A Book of Americans” by Stephen Vincent Benét | |
| Humanity’s Awesome, Terrifying Takeover of Evolution (April 2, 2021) | |
| “The Bully Pulpit” by Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
| “The Moviegoer” by Walker Percy | |
| “The Eighth Day of Creation” by Horace Freeland Judson | |
| “Winnie the Pooh” by A.A. Milne | |
| The Author Behind ‘Arrival’ Doesn’t Fear A.I. ‘Look at How We Treat Animals.’ (March 30, 2021) | |
| “Creation” by Steve Grand | |
| “CivilWarLand in Bad Decline” by George Saunders | |
| “A Visit From the Goon Squad” by Jennifer Egan | |
| “On Fragile Waves” by Lily Yu | |
| “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek” by Annie Dillard | |
| A Top G.O.P. Pollster on Trump 2024, QAnon and What Republicans Really Want (March 26, 2021) | |
| “Grand New Party” by Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam | |
| “Resonate” by Nancy Duarte | |
| “Dragons Love Tacos” by Adam Rubin | |
| Andrew Cuomo and the Performance of Power (March 19, 2021) | |
| “The House of Mirth” by Edith Wharton | |
| “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” by Betty Smith | |
| “Another Brooklyn” by Jacqueline Woodson | |
| “My Ántonia” by Willa Cather | |
| “Then We Came to the End” by Joshua Ferris | |
| “All the King’s Men” by Robert Penn Warren | |
| “Unbought and Unbossed” by Shirley Chisholm | |
| “The Elephant and the Bad Baby” by Elfrida Vipont | |
| “The Church Mouse” by Graham Oakley | |
| “Tar Beach” by Faith Ringgold | |
| “The Highway Rat” by Julia Donaldson | |
| “The Complete 8-Book Ramona Collection” by Beverly Cleary | |
| “When You Reach Me” by Rebecca Stead | |
| “The Watsons Go to Birmingham — 1963” by Christopher Paul Curtis | |
| Mark Bittman Cooked Everything. Now He Wants to Change Everything. (March 16, 2021) | |
| “Classic Indian Cooking” by Julie Sahni | |
| “How to Cook Everything Vegetarian” by Mark Bittman | |
| “Lord Emsworth” by P.G. Wodehouse | |
| “The New Book of Middle Eastern Food” by Claudia Roden | |
| “The Old World Kitchen: The Rich Tradition of European Peasant Cooking” by Elisabeth Luard | |
| “The Optimist’s Telescope” by Bina Venkataraman | |
| “The Wuggie Norple Story” by Daniel Manus Pinkwater and Tomie dePaola | |
| How America’s Covid-19 Nightmare Ends (March 12, 2021) | |
| “LikeWar” by P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking | |
| “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” by Malcolm X and Alex Haley | |
| “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” by Eric Carle | |
| What Does Toxic Stress Do to Children? (March 9, 2021) | |
| “Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers” by Robert Sapolsky | |
| “The Emotional Life of the Toddler” by Alicia Lieberman | |
| “The Woman Behind the New Deal” by Kirstin Downey | |
| “The Runaway Bunny” by Margaret Wise Brown | |
| Stop. Breathe. We Can’t Keep Working Like This. (March 5, 2021) | |
| “Technics and Civilization” by Lewis Mumford | |
| “Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change” by Neil Postman | |
| “Andrew Henry’s Meadow” by Doris Burn | |
| What a More Responsible Republican Party Would Look Like (March 2, 2021) | |
| “The Great Debate” by Yuval Levin | |
| “The Upside-Down Constitution” by Michael S. Greve | |
| “Popular Crime” by Bill James | |
| “The Chronicles of Narnia” by C.S. Lewis | |
| The Texas Crisis Could Become Everyone’s Crisis (Feb. 26, 2021) | |
| “Short Circuiting Policy” by Leah Stokes | |
| “The Lorax” by Dr. Seuss | |
| “Under a White Sky” by Elizabeth Kolbert | |
| “The Ministry for the Future” by Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| A Radical Proposal for True Democracy (Feb. 23, 2021) | |
| “Liquid Reign” by Tim Reutemann | |
| “The Three Musketeers” by Alexandre Dumas | |
| “The Principles of Representative Government” by Bernard Manin | |
| Mortelle Adèle series | |
| What It Means to Be Kind in a Cruel World (Feb. 19, 2021) | |
| “Red Cavalry” by Isaac Babel | |
| “Stamped From the Beginning” by Ibram X. Kendi | |
| “Dispatches” by Michael Herr | |
| “Patriotic Gore” by Edmund Wilson | |
| “In Love With the World” by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche | |
| “Loving; Living; Party Going” by Henry Green | |
| “Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey” by Hayden Carruth | |
| “Tropic of Squalor” by Mary Carr | |
| “They Lift Their Wings to Cry” by Brooks Haxton | |
| “The Hundred Dresses” by Eleanor Estes and Louis Slobodkin | |
| “Caps for Sale” by Esphyr Slobodkina | |
| What ‘Drained-Pool’ Politics Costs America (Feb. 16, 2021) | |
| “Parable of the Sower” by Octavia E. Butler | |
| “The Color of Law” by Richard Rothstein | |
| “The Word Collector” by Peter H. Reynolds | |
| The Senate Is Making a Mockery of Itself (Feb. 12, 2021) | |
| “Double Indemnity” by James Cain | |
| “Master of the Senate” by Robert Caro | |
| “The Sum of Us” by Heather McGhee | |
| “Where the Wild Things Are” by Maurice Sendak | |
| Should We Dim the Sun? Will We Even Have a Choice? (Feb. 9, 2021) | |
| “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| “The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka” | |
| “The Song of the Dodo” by David Quammen | |
| “Global Warming (The Complete Briefing)” by John Houghton | |
| “Cosmicomics” by Italo Calvino | |
| “The Phantom Tollbooth” by Norton Juster | |
| “Charlotte’s Web” by E.B. White | |
| An Appalled Republican Considers the Future of the G.O.P. (Feb. 5, 2021) | |
| “On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters” by Edmund Burke | |
| “Reflections on the Revolution in France” by Edmund Burke | |
| “The American Crisis” by Thomas Paine | |
| “The Rights of Man” by Thomas Paine | |
| “Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition” by Roger Scruton | |
| “Freedom From the Market: America’s Fight to Liberate Itself From the Grip of the Invisible Hand” by Mike Konczal | |
| “Social Democratic Capitalism” by Lane Kenworthy | |
| “The Upswing” by Robert Putnam with Shaylyn Romney Garrett | |
| To Understand This Era, You Need to Think in Systems (Feb. 2, 2021) | |
| “Normal Accidents” by Charles Perrow | |
| “The Dispossessed” by Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| What’s Happening to Our Economy Is Like a Natural Disaster (Jan. 29, 2021) | |
| “Laundry Files” series by Charlie Stross | |
| “Merchant Princes” series by Charlie Stross | |
| “The Price of Peace” by Zachary Carter | |
| The Man With the Plan to Beat the Pandemic (Jan. 26, 2021) | |
| “Plagues and Politics” by Fitzhugh Mullan |