BY A.C. GRAYLING PENGUIN PRESS, 2019 704PP.; $35.00 If A.C. Grayling’s The History of Philo­sophy were a river, it would be shallow with a strong current. Traveling down it, you’d have little to see and... Read More

BY ABBY CHAVA STEIN SEAL PRESS, 2019 272 PP.; $28.OO The dedication of Abby Chava Stein’s autobiographical book, Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman reads: “To my dear son, the love... Read More

BY RONAN FARROW LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY, 2019 414 PP.; $30.00 "It's a big club, and you ain't in it." So goes the punchline to an old George Carlin bit on our ruling elite that... Read More

BY MARGARET ATWOOD NAN A. TALESE, 2019 432 PP.; $28.95 [Mild spoiler alert: this review contains plot details of the book.] During the torture session conducted by the Big Brother interrogator O’Brien in George Orwell’s... Read More

BY IAN MCEWAN NAN A. TALESE/DOUBLEDAY, 2019 333 PP., $26.95 Early on in this novel, the momentous question it raises—what is a human being?—becomes maddeningly opaque, and the anguished vibes that pervade Machines Like Me... Read More

P.E. MOSKOWITZ BOLD TYPE BOOKS, 2019 272 PP.; $28.00 Words like “controversial” and “provocative” are overused. When you read or hear that so-and-so’s stand-up comedy is “controversial,” that’s usually the culture-war commentariat wishing that reaction... Read More

BY ANDREW SEIDEL STERLING, 2019 352 PP.; $24.95 The first thing I’ll say about Andrew Seidel’s The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American is that it’s sad it had to be written. To many... Read More