Review

Kant’s Theory of Evil: An Essay on the Dangers of Self-love and the Aprioricity of History

Pablo Muchnik’s Kant’s Theory of Evil provides a defense of the continuing relevance of Immanuel Kant’s moral philosophy by systematically addressing interpretive…

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Karl Marx: A Life

What do a rogue elephant, a wild boar, and a shaven porcupine have in common? They all reflect facets of…

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Adam Smith and the Founding of Market Economics

In 2005, the Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan delivered the Adam Smith Memorial Lecture in Kirkcaldy, Scotland. Here, at…

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Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution

Life Ascending, by the author of Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World and Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the…

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Vanessa and Her Sister

Though Virginia Woolf was a talented, iconic writer, she was also mentally ill and, at times, bizarre. It would have…

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Martha Freud: A Biography

Those who wish to study the founding father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, may turn to any of the thousands of…

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John Keats: A New Life

John Keats by Nicholas Roe John Keats: A Literary Life, by R.S. White John Keats (Bloom’s Modern Critical Views), ed. By…

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Rebel Giants: The Revolutionary Lives of Abraham Lincoln & Charles Darwin

Rebel Giants, David Contosta’s latest book, offers a timely examination of the lives of two men who transformed their world—and…

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Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

Heather Clark, Professor of Contemporary Poetry at the University of Huddersfield, and author of The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath…

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Film on Paper: The Inner Life of Movies

This is the latest offering from Richard Schickel, a renowned film critic who probably knows more—and writes with greater incision—about…

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