New York Times Opinion Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Going There
Katie Couric
“What’s the point of writing a book that’s just, like, your greatest hits or a victory lap or a sanitized version of your life?” On today’s episode of Sway, @katiecouric tells @karaswisher about her new and brutally honest memoir, “Going There.” https://nyti.ms/3GwSsOE
Paperback, 2022
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
“Black thinkers have been part of my intellectual life since I first picked up ‘Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave’ in high school,” writes @jbouie in his latest newsletter. https://t.co/TkUKcZpB9F
Paperback, 1995
$4.50$2.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
John M. Barry
America “is ceding control to the virus,” writes @johnmbarry, the author of “The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History.” https://t.co/EBf7TmeUNW
Paperback, 2005
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
Rachel Aviv
Our stories about ourselves can save us or trap us, @RachelAviv tells @EzraKlein on today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. Her new book, “Strangers to Ourselves,” tells stories about people at odds with their psychiatric diagnoses. https://t.co/uvVJRYV61F
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Forgetting: The Benefits of Not Remembering
Scott A. Small
Forgetting some of our pandemic fear "will allow us to more clearly recall the details we want to remember.” Read more from neuroscientist Scott A. Small. https://t.co/A8DeqyMn14
Hardcover, 2021
$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair
Duke L. Kwon
This week @Tish_H_Warren speaks to the artist Gregory Thompson “to learn more about his advocacy of reparations and the story of transformation that led him to it.” https://t.co/zCK0dGSsMh
Paperback, 2022
$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy
Elizabeth Popp Berman
In his latest newsletter, @petercoy speaks with the sociologist Elizabeth Popp Berman (@epopppp) about her book, "Thinking Like an Economist," and the reaction it’s received. https://t.co/s3Rb3hatYK
Paperback, 2023
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
Barbara J. Fields
“I want to highlight Chief Justice Roberts’s avoidance of racism as a prime example of ‘racecraft,’ the term coined by the historians Karen and Barbara Fields,” writes @jbouie in his latest newsletter. https://t.co/ImKch5tgKF
Paperback, 2022
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Overstory
Richard Powers
“It is going to be other kinds of minds that give us that clarity and strength," Richard Powers, the author of "The Overstory," tells @EzraKlein. https://nyti.ms/3EWgq57
Paperback, 2019
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Last White Man
Mohsin Hamid
The novelist Mohsin Hamid has tackled the human questions surrounding social issues, from migration to race. On today’s episode of The @ezraklein Show, Ezra talks to Hamid about his latest novel, “The Last White Man.” https://t.co/Yydvl16g3w
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book