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Into the Woods

REVIEW: ‘How to Survive in the Woods: A Novel’ by Kat Rosenfield

Tyranny Through Technology

REVIEW: ‘The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control’ by Jacob Siegel

This Emperor Had Clothes

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

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

A Book to Sink Your Teeth Into

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

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

Kicking and Screaming Against America and Israel

REVIEW: ‘Kicking the Hornet’s Nest: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East from Truman to Trump’ by Daniel E. Zoughbie

Membership Has Its Privileges

REVIEW: ‘London Clubland: A Companion for the Curious’ by Seth Alexander Thévoz

There Has Always Been Politics at the Kennedy Center

New Yorkers have thought it fascist for more than half a century: ‘gemütlich Speer’