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The Age of Guilt: The Super-Ego in the Online World

Mark Edmundson. Yale University Press, 2023. 164 Pages. $26.00.

Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will

Robert M. Sapolsky. Penguin Press, 2023. 528 pages. $35.00.

The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne’er-do-Wells Concocted Creative Nonfiction

Lee Gutkind. Yale University Press, 2024. 292 pages. $25.00.

Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance

Jeremy Eichler. Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. 386 pages. $30.00.

The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman’s Narrative

Gregg Hecimovich. Ecco Press / HarperCollins, 2023. 432 pages. $40.00.

Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

Ilyon Woo. Simon & Schuster, 2023. 410 pages. $29.99.

Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights

Dylan C. Penningroth. Liveright, 2023. 496 pages. $35.00.

Invisibility: The History and Science of How Not to Be Seen

Gregory J. Gbur. Yale University Press, 2023. 280 pages. $30.00.

Culture: The Story of Us, from Cave Art to K-Pop

Martin Puchner. W.W. Norton, 2023. 349 pages. $35.00.

The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future

Peter Gleick. PublicAffairs, 2023. 356 pages. $30.00.

Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China

Hal Brands and Michael Beckley. W. W. Norton, 2022. 304 pages. $30.00.

The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century

Nicholas Dames. Princeton University Press, 2023. 370 pages. $35.00.