Life and Fate
Vasily Grossman
Mentioned 3 days ago
Platner’s Top Campaign Strategist on What Went Wrong
Book Recommendations
The Ezra Klein Show
Ezra Klein invites you into a conversation on something that matters. How do we address climate change if the political system fails to act? Has the logic of markets infiltrated too many aspects of our lives? What is the future of the Republican Party? What do psychedelics teach us about consciousne...
Episodes
561
Books
1,809
Recently mentioned
Latest Recommendations
The Shame
Makenna Goodman
Mentioned 3 days ago
Platner’s Top Campaign Strategist on What Went Wrong
The Fourth Branch
Daniel Squadron
Mentioned 3 days ago
Platner’s Top Campaign Strategist on What Went Wrong
The Avoidable War
Kevin Rudd
Mentioned 1 week ago
What Xi Jinping Wants
The Party's Interests Come First
Joseph Torigian
Mentioned 1 week ago
What Xi Jinping Wants
The Souls of China
Ian Johnson
Mentioned 1 week ago
What Xi Jinping Wants
The Beginning Comes After the End
Rebecca Solnit
Mentioned 2 weeks ago
The Very Good and Very Bad News on Climate
Here Comes the Sun
Bill McKibben
Mentioned 2 weeks ago
The Very Good and Very Bad News on Climate
The Glorians
Terry Tempest Williams
Mentioned 2 weeks ago
The Very Good and Very Bad News on Climate
The Carbon Wave
Leah C. Stokes
Mentioned 2 weeks ago
The Very Good and Very Bad News on Climate
Brought to You By
Amy Westervelt
Mentioned 2 weeks ago
The Very Good and Very Bad News on Climate
The Holocaust and the Nakba
Bashir Bashir
Mentioned 2 weeks ago
A Radical Vision for Israelis and Palestinians
Most Recommended
![[The Charterhouse of Parma] (By: Stendhal) [published: November, 1992] Cover](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/312noQ5pfIL.jpg)
[The Charterhouse of Parma] (By
Stendhal) [published
It was highlighted as a compulsively funny portrait of an Italian nobleman during the Napoleonic era.
"
Stendhal's The Charterhouse of Parma ... it's just compulsively funny. It's a portrait of this kind of minor Italian nobleman ... who attempts to join the Napoleonic wars for the Emperor
— Episode: Why This Conservative Wants a More Radic...
Listen on Audible
7-day free trial
Episode: Why This Conservative Wants a More Radical Republi...
It was highlighted as a compulsively funny portrait of an Italian nobleman during the Napoleonic era.
"
Stendhal's The Charterhouse of Parma ... it's just compulsively funny. It's a portrait of this kind of minor Italian nobleman ... who attempts to join the Napoleonic wars for the Emperor
The Gnostic Religion
The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity
It was described as a scholarly work of astonishing breadth and insight that Ahmari relies on in his own book.
"
Hans Jonas's The Gnostic Religion ... it's a beautiful work of scholarship, astonishing in its sweep, in its prose, in the amount of insight packed into every page
— Episode: Why This Conservative Wants a More Radic...
Listen on Audible
7-day free trial
Episode: Why This Conservative Wants a More Radical Republi...
It was described as a scholarly work of astonishing breadth and insight that Ahmari relies on in his own book.
"
Hans Jonas's The Gnostic Religion ... it's a beautiful work of scholarship, astonishing in its sweep, in its prose, in the amount of insight packed into every page
The Invisible Kingdom
Reimagining Chronic Illness
It was described as Megan O'Rourke's forthcoming book that was due out in March and was called terrific.
"
Megan's, The Invisible Kingdom, Reimagining Chronic Illness, is due out in March of next year and it's terrific.
— Episode: Long Covid and the Blind Spots of Americ...
Listen on Audible
7-day free trial
Episode: Long Covid and the Blind Spots of American Medicin...
It was described as Megan O'Rourke's forthcoming book that was due out in March and was called terrific.
"
Megan's, The Invisible Kingdom, Reimagining Chronic Illness, is due out in March of next year and it's terrific.
The Journal of a Disappointed Man
& A Last Diary (Dover Literature
It was highlighted as a hardtofind but extraordinary diary of a young man who wanted to become a zoologist, kept over many years.
"
One of them might be hard to find, but you can find it. And it's called The Journal of a Disappointed Man by W.N.P. Barbellian.
— Episode: Long Covid and the Blind Spots of Americ...
Listen on Audible
7-day free trial
Episode: Long Covid and the Blind Spots of American Medicin...
It was highlighted as a hardtofind but extraordinary diary of a young man who wanted to become a zoologist, kept over many years.
"
One of them might be hard to find, but you can find it. And it's called The Journal of a Disappointed Man by W.N.P. Barbellian.
And it's a diary that was kept over the years by this young man who wanted to become a zoologist in the early 20th century. It's just an extraordinary book.
The Cancer Journals
It was described as an extraordinary work that tracks the experience of a cancer diagnosis and mastectomy, intersecting with cultural narratives.
"
Another book that I thought was extraordinary was Audre Lorde's Cancer Journal, which was kind of keeping track of what it was like to be diagnosed with and have cancer and get a mastectomy and is ver...
— Episode: Long Covid and the Blind Spots of Americ...
Listen on Audible
7-day free trial
Episode: Long Covid and the Blind Spots of American Medicin...
It was described as an extraordinary work that tracks the experience of a cancer diagnosis and mastectomy, intersecting with cultural narratives.
"
Another book that I thought was extraordinary was Audre Lorde's Cancer Journal, which was kind of keeping track of what it was like to be diagnosed with and have cancer and get a mastectomy and is very sharp on, again, kind of the ways in which a sick body intersects with preexisting cultural narratives.
Birthright Citizens
A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (Studies in Legal History)
Ezra Klein introduced the book as the work through which he first encountered Jones' scholarship, noting its focus on Black American activists tackling citizenship gaps in the early Republic.
"
I was first introduced to Jones' work through her book Birthright Citizens, A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America.
— Episode: What Keeping American Democracy Alive Lo...
Listen on Audible
7-day free trial
Episode: What Keeping American Democracy Alive Looks Like
Ezra Klein introduced the book as the work through which he first encountered Jones' scholarship, noting its focus on Black American activists tackling citizenship gaps in the early Republic.
"
I was first introduced to Jones' work through her book Birthright Citizens, A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America.
A Voice from the South (General Press POD Books)
Ezra Klein cited Cooper's 1892 work as a feminist manifesto, quoting a passage that emphasizes equal rights for women, Indians, and Negroes.
"
Anna Julia Cooper wrote in A Voice from the South, a passage that I like quite a bit.
— Episode: What Keeping American Democracy Alive Lo...
Listen on Audible
7-day free trial
Episode: What Keeping American Democracy Alive Looks Like
Ezra Klein cited Cooper's 1892 work as a feminist manifesto, quoting a passage that emphasizes equal rights for women, Indians, and Negroes.
"
Anna Julia Cooper wrote in A Voice from the South, a passage that I like quite a bit.
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
An Oprah's Book Club Pick
Ezra Klein said he had been savoring Jeffers' novel in the evenings, describing it as a multigenerational search for identity and a new American origin story.
"
I've been listening to this as an audio book in the car. And in the evenings, I've been slowly savoring Honor Jeffers' latest book, a novel, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois.
— Episode: What Keeping American Democracy Alive Lo...
Listen on Audible
7-day free trial
Episode: What Keeping American Democracy Alive Looks Like
Ezra Klein said he had been savoring Jeffers' novel in the evenings, describing it as a multigenerational search for identity and a new American origin story.
"
I've been listening to this as an audio book in the car. And in the evenings, I've been slowly savoring Honor Jeffers' latest book, a novel, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois.
Rhetoric and Reality
Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1900 - 1985 (Studies in Writing and Rhetoric)
He noted that the book argued material interests shaped revolutionary choices, but those interests were filtered through ideological perspectives.
"
One of my favorite articles by Gordon Wood is called Rhetoric and Reality in the American Revolution.
— Episode: The Story of America's Founding You Were...
Listen on Audible
7-day free trial
Episode: The Story of America's Founding You Weren’t Taught...
He noted that the book argued material interests shaped revolutionary choices, but those interests were filtered through ideological perspectives.
"
One of my favorite articles by Gordon Wood is called Rhetoric and Reality in the American Revolution.
The Framers' Coup
The Making of the United States Constitution
He described that the book argued the Constitution was a counterrevolutionary move by the framers to curb the excesses of early democratic impulses.
"
The Framers' Coup, that there's a real sense in which the Constitution represents a counter revolution against what was going on up until the framers met in the summer of 1787 in Phil...
— Episode: The Story of America's Founding You Were...
Listen on Audible
7-day free trial
Episode: The Story of America's Founding You Weren’t Taught...
He described that the book argued the Constitution was a counterrevolutionary move by the framers to curb the excesses of early democratic impulses.
"
The Framers' Coup, that there's a real sense in which the Constitution represents a counter revolution against what was going on up until the framers met in the summer of 1787 in Philadelphia to write the Constitution.
Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution
He said that the book argued the Constitution emerged from economic crises created by elite interests rather than solely from popular pressures.
"
I did a whole book of this called Unruly Americans and the Origin of the Constitution, where I argued that ... the economic crisis was really caused by the elites.
— Episode: The Story of America's Founding You Were...
Listen on Audible
7-day free trial
Episode: The Story of America's Founding You Weren’t Taught...
He said that the book argued the Constitution emerged from economic crises created by elite interests rather than solely from popular pressures.
"
I did a whole book of this called Unruly Americans and the Origin of the Constitution, where I argued that ... the economic crisis was really caused by the elites.
A Midwife's Tale
The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
He praised the book as a beautifully crafted nonfiction work about a Maine midwife who meticulously recorded deliveries between 1785 and 1812.
"
The one that I keep coming back to for tremendous inspiration is by a then University of New Hampshire professor named Laurel Ulrich. And she wrote a book called A Midwife's Tale.
— Episode: The Story of America's Founding You Were...
Listen on Audible
7-day free trial
Episode: The Story of America's Founding You Weren’t Taught...
He praised the book as a beautifully crafted nonfiction work about a Maine midwife who meticulously recorded deliveries between 1785 and 1812.
"
The one that I keep coming back to for tremendous inspiration is by a then University of New Hampshire professor named Laurel Ulrich. And she wrote a book called A Midwife's Tale.
The Negro in the American Revolution
He noted that the 1961 book highlighted the roles of free and enslaved AfricanAmericans on both the American and British sides of the Revolutionary War.
"
My second one ... Benjamin Quarles, who taught at Morgan State, wrote a book. And you can tell that it was 1961 by the title The Negro in the American Revolution.
— Episode: The Story of America's Founding You Were...
Listen on Audible
7-day free trial
Episode: The Story of America's Founding You Weren’t Taught...
He noted that the 1961 book highlighted the roles of free and enslaved AfricanAmericans on both the American and British sides of the Revolutionary War.
"
My second one ... Benjamin Quarles, who taught at Morgan State, wrote a book. And you can tell that it was 1961 by the title The Negro in the American Revolution.
Rebecca's Revival
Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World
He described the book as the story of a Caribbean woman who converted to Christianity, married a missionary, and faced persecution for refusing to renounce the marriage.
"
And the third one, a friend of mine named John Sensbach teaches at the University of Florida, and his book is called Rebecca's Revival.
— Episode: The Story of America's Founding You Were...
Listen on Audible
7-day free trial
Episode: The Story of America's Founding You Weren’t Taught...
He described the book as the story of a Caribbean woman who converted to Christianity, married a missionary, and faced persecution for refusing to renounce the marriage.
"
And the third one, a friend of mine named John Sensbach teaches at the University of Florida, and his book is called Rebecca's Revival.
The Company
Ezra explained that the book explores the history and impact of the limited liability corporation, showing how its creation sparked the Industrial Revolution.
"
One book that we spend a lot of time talking about as a team in crypto is called The Company. At first it sounds boring because it's about the creation of the LLC, Limited Liability C...
— Episode: A Crypto Optimist and a Crypto Skeptic W...
Listen on Audible
7-day free trial
Episode: A Crypto Optimist and a Crypto Skeptic Walk Into a...
Ezra explained that the book explores the history and impact of the limited liability corporation, showing how its creation sparked the Industrial Revolution.
"
One book that we spend a lot of time talking about as a team in crypto is called The Company. At first it sounds boring because it's about the creation of the LLC, Limited Liability Corporation, which at the time was a very controversial idea.
Turns out no, people wanted limited liability corporations to build things like railroads for society to progress. That got rid of unlimited liability, but it also caused railroads to be built and then ushered in the Industrial Revolution.
PALACE WALK (Cairo Trilogy, Vol 1)
Ezra highlighted the novel as a vivid portrait of early20thcentury life in Cairo, drawn from his own upbringing there.
"
A third really that I enjoy, and it's mostly because of my personal background having lived in Cairo, Egypt growing up, is called Naguib Mahfouz's Palace Walk. That's just a fascinating book that give...
— Episode: A Crypto Optimist and a Crypto Skeptic W...
Listen on Audible
7-day free trial
Episode: A Crypto Optimist and a Crypto Skeptic Walk Into a...
Ezra highlighted the novel as a vivid portrait of early20thcentury life in Cairo, drawn from his own upbringing there.
"
A third really that I enjoy, and it's mostly because of my personal background having lived in Cairo, Egypt growing up, is called Naguib Mahfouz's Palace Walk. That's just a fascinating book that gives a snapshot into what life was like at turn of the century in Cairo.
The Unsettling of America
Culture and Agriculture by Berry, Wendell (1982) Hardcover
Berry's 1976 essay collection was cited as a seminal work that gave him agrarian rockstar status.
"
He sort of became an agrarian rock star in about 1976 with a book of essays called The Unsettling of America.
— Episode: Lessons on Living Well, From Nick Offerm...
Listen on Audible
7-day free trial
Episode: Lessons on Living Well, From Nick Offerman
Berry's 1976 essay collection was cited as a seminal work that gave him agrarian rockstar status.
"
He sort of became an agrarian rock star in about 1976 with a book of essays called The Unsettling of America.
And that brought him a lot of attention because it's a book with so much common sense that people with their heads on straight sat up and said, oh, hey, we should pay attention to what this guy is laying down.
Wanderlust
A History of Walking
Solnit's book about walking was highlighted for its insight into how walking shapes human thinking and connection to nature.
"
My second book would be Wanderlust by Rebecca Solnit. Because it's a book, it's on point. It's all about walking.
— Episode: Lessons on Living Well, From Nick Offerm...
Listen on Audible
7-day free trial
Episode: Lessons on Living Well, From Nick Offerman
Solnit's book about walking was highlighted for its insight into how walking shapes human thinking and connection to nature.
"
My second book would be Wanderlust by Rebecca Solnit. Because it's a book, it's on point. It's all about walking.
Girls & Sex
Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
Orenstein's guide to adolescent sexuality was recommended as a manual for navigating puberty.
"
It's a two for one because it's a book called Girls and Sex, but there's a twin called Boys and Sex.
— Episode: Lessons on Living Well, From Nick Offerm...
Listen on Audible
7-day free trial
Episode: Lessons on Living Well, From Nick Offerman
Orenstein's guide to adolescent sexuality was recommended as a manual for navigating puberty.
"
It's a two for one because it's a book called Girls and Sex, but there's a twin called Boys and Sex.
Boys & Sex
Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity
Orenstein's companion volume to Girls and Sex was likewise highlighted for its frank look at teenage boys and sexuality.
"
It's a two for one because it's a book called Girls and Sex, but there's a twin called Boys and Sex.
— Episode: Lessons on Living Well, From Nick Offerm...
Listen on Audible
7-day free trial
Episode: Lessons on Living Well, From Nick Offerman
Orenstein's companion volume to Girls and Sex was likewise highlighted for its frank look at teenage boys and sexuality.
"
It's a two for one because it's a book called Girls and Sex, but there's a twin called Boys and Sex.
Note: The book recommendations on this page are discovered automatically from podcast transcripts, and may be incorrect or incomplete.