Can American Capitalism Survive?

BY STEVEN PEARLSTEIN ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, 2018 205 PP.; $27.99 Steven Pearlstein’s Can American Capitalism Survive? Why Greed Is Not Good, Opportunity Is Not Equal, and Fairness Won’t Make Us Poor is as mildly unconventional... Read More

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

BY YUVAL NOAH HARARI SPEIGEL & GRAU, 2018 400 PP.; $28.00 Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari is the author of Sapiens: A Brief 
History of Humankind; Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow; and now,... Read More

America: The Farewell Tour

BY CHRIS HEDGES SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2018 400 PP.; $27.00 For better or worse, you know what you’re going to get with a Chris Hedges’s book. Despite some of them having ostensible focuses—Death of the... Read More

Seven Types of Atheism

BY JOHN GRAY FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX, 2018 176 PP.; $25.00 The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein contended that religion has no single essence and that religions are best understood as extended families, in the sense that... Read More

Origin: A Novel

BY DAN BROWN ANCHOR, 2018 656 PP.; $9.99 Dan Brown has written a succession of enormously successful thrillers, including The Da Vinci Code and others in the Robert Langdon series. You find them in airport... Read More