Sam Adler-Bell Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Sam Adler-Bell is a journalist and writer. writer // cohost of @knowyrenemypod with my pal @matthewsitman
White Women: Everything You Already Know about Your Own Racism and How to Do Better
Regina JacksonSam Adler-BellIt’s so funny that the title of Saira Rao’s documentary about white women plays off a Woody Allen movie. https://t.co/5xgvbgXunQ
Paperback, 2022
$16.00Member price:$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Edinburgh
James HeronSam Adler-BellIt’s good to have one non-negotiable plan when visiting a city on vacation. E.g. I’m really going with the flow here in sunny Edinburgh, but I will not rest until I see the wardrobe the infamous Deacon Brodie built for Robert Louis Stevenson at the Writer’s Museum.
Paperback, 2019
$20.95Member price:$18.86 + Free shipping10% off
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: A George Smiley Novel
John Le CarréSam Adler-Bell“Tinker, Tailor” is also le Carré’s most pointed indictment of the English upper classes, satirizing their imperial nostalgia, capacity for betrayal and genius for self-preservation. Even so, the novel indulges a wistfulness for wartime moral heroism and bourgeois grit.
Paperback, 2011
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Looking Glass War: A George Smiley Novel
John Le CarréSam Adler-Bell…damned foolishness, hubris and sentimentality are culprits in [The Looking Glass War]. And these frailties, le Carré suggests, are particular to men — especially men in love. Fraternity of this sort is a source of beauty and ruin in le Carré’s books.
Paperback, 2013
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Little Drummer Girl
John Le CarréSam Adler-BellNew bonus @KnowYrEnemyPod: on the novels of John le Carré and the (bad) 1984 film adaptation of "The Little Drummer Girl" with @jbouie and @lionel_trolling of @UnclearPod https://t.co/6kj34r8OnW
Paperback, 2011
$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO
Felix GilletteSam Adler-BellHBO gradually shed its reputation as a fratty boys’ club, but the network’s origins as a vehicle for male licentiousness haunt the pages of “It’s Not TV.” ... The book is full of arresting insights...
Hardcover, 2022
$28.00Member price:$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mortals
Norman RushSam Adler-Bellthe girls are reading MATING; the boys are reading MORTALS and speculating about whether Norman Rush was CIA
Paperback, 2004
$19.95Member price:$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mating: A Novel (National Book Award Winner)
Norman RushSam Adler-Bellthe girls are reading MATING; the boys are reading MORTALS and speculating about whether Norman Rush was CIA
Paperback, 1992
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America
Josh DawseySam Adler-BellA well-paced, thorough and often (darkly) humorous account... For liberal readers, “2024” is a book of what-might-have-beens. That makes for a punishing read. But if we refuse to look for lessons in this depressing book, we might just keep becoming our own worst enemies.
Hardcover, 2025
$32.00Member price:$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Philosophy of Modern Song
Bob DylanSam Adler-BellNEW @KnowYrEnemyPod: we take on Bob Dylan's very strange 2022 book "The Philosophy of Modern Song" with help from KYE's own musician-in-residence Will Epstein! https://t.co/LenJONT24w
Hardcover, 2022
$45.00Member price:$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book