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Crime and the Criminologists

REVIEW: ‘Marked by Time: How Social Change Has Transformed Crime and the Life Trajectories of Young Americans’ by Robert J. Sampson

A Lexicon for the Linguistically Curious

REVIEW: 'Schott's Significa: A Miscellany of Secret Languages' by Ben Schott

The Slavery Story You Won’t Learn in School

REVIEW: ‘Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World’ by Justin Marozzi

Time to Man Up

REVIEW: ‘Notes on Being a Man’ by Scott Galloway

Stiff Competition

REVIEW: ‘The Doctors’ Riot of 1788: Body Snatching, Bloodletting, and Anatomy in America’ by Andy McPhee

A Book to Sink Your Teeth Into

REVIEW: ‘Hannibal Lecter: A Life’ by Brian Raftery

A Soulless Argument

REVIEW: ‘The Soul Delusion’ by David P. Barash

How Israel’s High Court Reigns Supreme

REVIEW: ‘Rogue Justice: The Rise of Judicial Supremacy in Israel’ by Yonatan Green

Crossover Appeal

REVIEW: ‘Misunderstood: A Memoir’ by Allen Iverson

Harry Reid and the Art of Ruthlessness

REVIEW: ‘The Game Changer: How Harry Reid Remade the Rules and Showed Democrats How to Fight’ by Jon Ralston