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 Jackson
It’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
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Edinburgh
James Heron
It’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
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: A George Smiley Novel
John Le Carré
“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
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The Looking Glass War: A George Smiley Novel
John Le Carré
…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
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The Little Drummer Girl
John Le Carré
New 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
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It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO
Felix Gillette
HBO 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
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mortals
Norman Rush
the girls are reading MATING; the boys are reading MORTALS and speculating about whether Norman Rush was CIA
Paperback, 2004
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The Little Drummer Girl
John Le Carré
This life-or-death creative enterprise, which is also a twisted, mutual seduction, is le Carré’s most thrilling testament to the power and perils of fiction.
Paperback, 2011
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Mating: A Novel (National Book Award Winner)
Norman Rush
the girls are reading MATING; the boys are reading MORTALS and speculating about whether Norman Rush was CIA
Paperback, 1992
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The Philosophy of Modern Song
Bob Dylan
NEW @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
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