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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

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’

Medicine’s Descent Into Madness

REVIEW: ‘Doing Great Harm? How DEI and Identity Politics Are Infecting American Healthcare―and How We Are Fighting Back’ by Stanley Goldfarb

To Accept the Things I Cannot Change

REVIEW: ‘Infertile But Fruitful: Finding Fulfillment When You Can’t Conceive’ by Leigh Fitzpatrick Snead

The DC-Marvel Universe: How the Greatest Comic Collab Came Together

On the 50th anniversary of ‘Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man’