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The Return to Kant
The "context" in question in Reidar Maliks’s careful exposition of the development of Immanuel Kant’s political philosophy is primarily twofold.
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Now Entering the Independent Nation of Heyday, California
By reading "The Heyday of Malcolm Margolin," I've been given a much better, deeper understanding of who Margolin is, what Heyday publishes, and what it doesn't.
What does it mean when we do it like this?
"You Who Read Me with Passion Must Now Forever Be My Friends" arrives at a moment when women decades younger than Iannone need someone to show them out of this maze.
Marvin’s Muse
Jan Gaye, Marvin Gaye's second wife, has finally written her own book, a memoir called After the Dance: My Life with Marvin Gaye.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Finance
The idea that finance is the naturally complex lifeblood of our economy whose path only a rarefied group of white men can chart: that’s a trope.
Aftermaths of an Epidemic: On Dale Peck’s “Visions and Revisions”
Peck’s larger claim is that despite AIDS, and maybe even because of AIDS, gay men must make sure not to lose joy in sex.
This Is Not a Charm Contest: The Life and Afterlife of Iceberg Slim
A memoir of a former petty black crook who reforms himself in prison becomes one of the landmark nonfiction works about the pre-civil rights African American experience.
The Pure, Messy Math of Us
In upping the ante on the darker sides of characters, Franzen has paradoxically lifted up a more reflective and penetrating mirror to his readers.
The Peppery Napoleon Who Once Led China
How Deng Xiaoping initiated the "reform and opening" that with remarkable speed yielded the Chinese colossus that we see today.
The Siege Approach to Conservation
By promoting a siege approach to conservation, in which humans are the enemy, books such as "The Annihilation of Nature" are part of the problem.
Unbecoming Dashiell Hammett
The aim of Nathan Ward's new biography, "The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett," is rather more modest than its title.
An Immigrant Story, the Tango, and Gender Fluidity
Carolina de Robertis's third novel of historical fiction, "The Gods of Tango," is a bold and mesmerizing meditation on the immigrant experience.
Gerry Spence and His Fight Against Power
Gary Spence hates prosecutors. I’m a prosecutor.
Witness to a Catastrophe
Two new on-the-ground accounts of the Gaza war.
Reading “Between the World and Me” in Context
Reading "Between the World and Me."
Nabokov’s Geographies
Houman Barekat on Robert Roper's "Nabokov in America: On the Road to Lolita."
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