The Ezra Klein Show

I put one into Oryx and Crake and the Mad Adam trilogy, and that's an engineered species that lacks our drawback, shall we say.

you'll notice that I put one into Oryx and Crake and the Mad Atom trilogy

If you want to read about that, you can get a book called Art and Energy by Barry Lorde.

if you want to read about that, you can get a book called Art and Energy by Barry Lord.

Everyone Who Was Gone Is Here by Jonathan Blitzer, specifically the first half, which talks about the 80s and has really great archival material as a reminder that, like, government is made of people and people make decisions.

He's also the author of the excellent book, Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here, The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis.

Thomas de Zengotita... he wrote a book called Mediated.

It's just a really lucid and wellwritten and kind of funny look at the consequences of living in a mediasaturated society.

I've always felt like it's a very underappreciated book.

The third book would be Thomas de Zengotita's Mediated, and it's just a really lucid and wellwritten and kind of funny look at the consequences of living in a media saturated society at the personal and the political level.

And you mentioned Sacred and Secular.

As increasing security came about, religion no longer seemed to be as important in people's lives... I wrote a book on that, Sacred and Secular.

Michael Lind, a columnist, a tablet, the author of the book The New Class War, and a cofounder of New America, he's argued that it was kind of a political machine.

I think since last time we talked, a book appeared, unfortunately, right at the beginning of the pandemic, which I wish had gotten more attention. And it's Michael Lind's book, The New Class War.

In 2023, he published a book called Party of the People, Inside the Multiracial Populist Coalition Remaking the GOP.

I recommend his book as an important place to start.

called Steadfast Democrats by Ismael White and Cheryl Laird

Steadfast Democrats by Ismael White and Cheryl Laird

There's a great book called Steadfast Democrats that talks about how the black vote is always so high because that's the only socially acceptable vote in that community.

My first recommendation is The Challenger Launch Decision by Diane Vaughn. So you know when we think about our behaviors... Diane Vaughn is the person who identified the idea that we slowly accept nonnormal behaviors as being normal, so this book is a fascinating account and analysis of the Challenger Shuttle disaster in 1986.

So my first recommendation is The Challenger Launch Decision by Diane Vaughan.

It's a fascinating account and analysis of the Challenger shuttle disaster in 1986, and it serves as a warning about how we slowly expand our bounds of what is normal.

The last one I think speaks to our conversation is Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy by Daniel Ziblatt, where he argues that European countries' political arcs to democracy were shaped by their conservative parties.

There's a book I've been thinking about a lot lately. It's by Daniel Ziblatt, who's a Harvard political scientist, and it's called Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy.

And it reminds me a bit of something that I love from that Lincoln book, Edward Acorn's book, The Lincoln Miracle.

I've been reading Ed Acorn's book, The Lincoln Miracle, inside the Republican Convention, My favorite line in it comes from Senator Charles Sumner, who sends a welcome note to or is his running mate in the first place.

I remember that essay by David Brooks... it makes me think of a book on a similar topic by a colleague of mine, Sophie Lewis, which is called Full Surrogacy Now.

I'm reading a book called Full Surrogacy Now by Sophie Lewis, which talks about the family unit as a hostage situation, that there are certain compulsions and expectations that come with our life as part of a nuclear family unit that are actually impossible to satisfy.

I talk in the book about her letters that she wrote to a friend named Eva Konnikova over a period of really about eight years, while the two had been separated as the result of incidents relating to World War II.

I talk in the book about her letters that she wrote to a friend during WorldII, which is just really, really stirring and beautiful, wonderful writing from Tove Jansson, but shockingly intimate.

My second recommendation is a very difficult book but worth it if you have the stamina. It is a book by Lauren Berlant, the famous critic and theorist who unfortunately passed away just recently. The title of it is On the Inconvenience of Other People.

My second recommendation is a very difficult book, On the Inconvenience of Other People by LaurenBerlant, published posthumously in 2022, which unpacks the Sartre phrase 'hell is other people' through the lens of inconvenience and argues that inconvenience is itself political.

Bakony is the author of Hamas Contained, one of the best books on Hamas' rise and its history, and its changes.

Tarek Bakony, your book is called Hamas Contained, which I think is an essential place to begin for people who want to understand Hamas on its own terms.

Tarek Bakaouni wrote a really fantastic book about this called Hamas Contained, where he really provides a very great complex analysis of how it was born.

She's the author of Proust and the Squid, the story and science of the reading brain

It was a book called Proust and the Squid, The Story and Science of the Reading Brain. I realized that there was nothing in the brain, not a single gene, not a single region that was specifically there for reading.

She's the author of Proust and the Squid, The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

It was a book called Proust and the Squid, The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

I read Hermann Hesse with such love and affection... And Glasbead Game, Magister Ludi, Glasperlenspiel. That was my favorite.

I could just immerse myself. And so I did and utterly, completely failed to be able to even read the first part of the book. ... I put the book back.

I read Hermann Hesse with such love and affection... Glossbeed game, Magister Ludi, Glossperlenspiel.

I've been doing a lot of work with colleagues like Naomi Barron, who has an Oxford book called How We Read Now.

I've been doing a lot of work with colleagues like Naomi Barron who has an Oxford book called How We Read Now

my friend, Gish Jen, who unbelievably can write even about dystopia... That was in her book, The Resisters. But I would really actually want to say that my favorite was her book, World in Town.

my friend Gish Jen... That was in her book The Resisters. But I would really actually want to say that my favorite was her book World in Town

That was in her book, The Resisters.

That was in her book The Resisters