The New Republic 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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Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York
Jeremiah MossThe New RepublicIn his new book “Feral City,” Jeremiah Moss writes of the early days of the pandemic as a glimpse of the city before gentrification. @MaxHolleran’s review: https://t.co/28yrQGtzoz
Hardcover, 2022
$27.95Member price:$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
Hunter S. ThompsonThe New Republic#Archives “For more than one reason … I suspect that Hunter S. Thompson is a writer whose future career is worth watching.” From Richard Elman’s 1967 review of “Hell’s Angels”: https://t.co/8q8ha42nSM
Paperback, 1996
$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
Barbara EhrenreichThe New RepublicWithout opposing reasonable, routine maintenance, Barbara Ehrenreich observed in her 2018 book "Natural Causes" that the care of the self has become a coercive and exploitative obligation. From Gabriel Winant: https://t.co/U6BAf9nM0L
Paperback, 2019
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Adam SmithThe New RepublicJohn Adams, the second president of the United States, drew on Adam Smith’s book “The Theory of Moral Sentiments” to meditate on the political power of the rich. https://t.co/XRQyNijdha
Paperback, 1982
$14.50Member price:$7.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Big Bend National Park: Mexico, the United States, and a Borderland Ecosystem
Michael WelshThe New RepublicIn the instant botanist Michael Eason spotted an unusual tree in Big Bend National Park, it became the only known living specimen of the country’s rarest oak species. From @MarionRenault: https://t.co/ZZr4HOBPHK
Paperback, 2021
$25.95Member price:$12.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Crossroads
Jonathan FranzenThe New RepublicIn making goodness the major theme of “Crossroads,” the first in a planned trilogy, Jonathan Franzen is far from alone. The novel may be one of the last few spaces in the culture in which morality is discussed seriously. https://bit.ly/3DkXQSE
Paperback, 2022
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
Andrea WulfThe New RepublicAndrea Wulf’s focus in her new book, “Magnificent Rebels,” is on the all-too-human affairs of the lofty-minded poets and philosophers who settled in Jena, Germany at the end of the eighteenth century. https://t.co/a5HiBhEuyG
Paperback, 2023
$22.00Member price:$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
David QuammenThe New RepublicThe difficult and esoteric information David Quammen needs to convey in “Breathless” gets subsumed in narrative, like a pill hidden in a spoonful of peanut butter: You don’t notice that you’ve swallowed anything until it’s already taken effect. https://t.co/N1d1NVq5am
Paperback, 2023
$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
Mike DavisThe New RepublicMike Davis, the author of “City of Quartz” and “Ecology of Fear,” changed the way we think about cities, inequality, and climate change, writes @MaxHolleran. https://t.co/f1CLv6azpd
Paperback, 2018
$21.95Member price:$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner
Toni MorrisonThe New RepublicHere's Glenn Youngkin's closing argument: I will fight to keep Toni Morrison's famous books away from your kids. https://bit.ly/3CjWs2G
Paperback, 2004
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book