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Louise Aronson
Elderhood
4
9 min
Joseph S. Nye Jr.
Soft Power
3.8
11 min
Sebastian Smee
The Art of Rivalry
3.9
10 min
Stephen Vladeck
The Shadow Docket
4.2
12 min
Cynthia Barnett
Rain
3.8
9 min
Bill Gates
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
3.8
17 min
Alice Dreger
Galileo’s Middle Finger
3.7
11 min
Brian Alexander
Glass House
3.9
14 min
David Aaronovitch
Voodoo Histories
3.6
11 min
Amy Chozick
Chasing Hillary
3.7
16 min
Jonathan Sacks
Morality
4.3
11 min
George Gilder
Life After Google
3.6
13 min
Barbara McQuade
Attack from Within
4.2
17 min
Nancy Etcoff
Survival of the Prettiest
3.8
9 min
Nicholas Carlson
Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!
3.9
27 min
Eric Klinenberg
Going Solo
3.4
9 min
Jed Rubenfeld
The Triple Package
3.6
9 min
Sarah Bakewell
Humanly Possible
4
12 min
Howard French
China's Second Continent
3.8
13 min
Rana Foroohar
Makers and Takers
4
11 min
Merve Emre
The Personality Brokers
3.3
10 min
Terry Eagleton
The Meaning of Life
3.5
10 min
Andrew W. Lo
Adaptive Markets
4.1
9 min
Michael S. Schmidt
Donald Trump v. The United States
4.2
13 min
Marcus du Sautoy
The Creativity Code
4
16 min
Niall Ferguson
The House of Rothschild
3.9
13 min
Branko Milanović
The Haves and the Have-Nots
3.9
10 min
Reid Mitenbuler
Bourbon Empire
4
10 min
Aimen Dean
Nine Lives
4.3
26 min
Tim McGraw
Songs of America
3.8
18 min