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Scalia Ascendant

REVIEW ‘Scalia: Supreme Court Years, 1986-2001’ by James Rosen

Peerage Pressure

REVIEW: ‘Heirs & Graces: A History of the Modern British Aristocracy’ by Eleanor Doughty

Naughty by Nature?

REVIEW: 'The Nature of Nurture: Rethinking Why and How Childhood Adversity Shapes Development' by Jay Belsky

Chosen to Make America’s Toys

REVIEW: ‘Playmakers: The Jewish Entrepreneurs Who Created the Toy Industry in America’ by Michael Kimmel

Sympathy for the Gavin

REVIEW: ‘Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery’ by Gavin Newsom

This Emperor Had Clothes

REVIEW: ‘Meditations’ by Marcus Aurelius, translated by Aaron Poochigian

Don't Fork It Over Yet

REVIEW: 'The Heart-Shaped Tin: Love, Loss, and Kitchen Objects' by Bee Wilson

Always in Front of the Servants

REVIEW: ‘The Royal Insider: My Life with the Queen, the King and Princess Diana’ by Paul Burrell

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