The National Book Review

The National Book Review

The National Book Review is an online magazine made by book enthusiasts for fellow book lovers. It serves as a platform for discussing literature and ideas, highlighting noteworthy new releases through our "5 Hot Books" segment. Our goal is to showcase exceptional books that deserve more recognition, featuring reviews, author interviews, and various articles that aim to draw attention to those hidden gems that might otherwise go unnoticed.

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  • 1 week ago | thenationalbookreview.com | Adam Cohen

    The Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon’s Enduring Impact on America By Mark WhitakerSimon & Schuster 448 pp. White folks should have listened to Black folks . . .  a long time ago. Black folks have understood all along that there were never any legal protections that couldn’t disappear in an instant if Whites wanted something they controlled, whether it be a piece of land, a profitable idea, or a life dedicated to calling out injustice.

  • 1 month ago | thenationalbookreview.com | Adam Cohen

    Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson (Penguin Press, 352 pages)By Paul Markowitz  With the election of 2024 still in our rear-view mirror, it is appropriate and timely that we reconsider what we knew and when we knew it about the decline of Joe Biden prior to last year's election.

  • 1 month ago | thenationalbookreview.com | Adam Cohen

    Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun ViolenceJens LudwigUniversity of Chicago Press 394 pp. Gun violence is one of our most intractable problems – and one of the most tragic. Day after day, the news is filled with lives senselessly cut short. Our society has come up with a parade of solutions – tougher sentences for gun crimes, dedicated anti-gang squads, and more – but they have not made a dent in the problem.

  • 1 month ago | thenationalbookreview.com | Adam Cohen

    Claire Hoffman, “Sister, Sinner: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)My friends all say they’ve heard of Aimee Semple McPherson, although they aren’t sure why. Something to do with religion, they say. Some kind of scandal, they add. Even if memories are vague, they’re sure she’s one of those 20th-century characters likely to show up as a mid-priced Jeopardy question.

  • 2 months ago | thenationalbookreview.com | Adam Cohen

    GliffBy Ali SmithPantheon 281 pp. By Jim SwearingenIt might seem somewhat rash to argue that the field of futuristic-dystopian novels has been picked clean. Writers will of course always craft new riffs on timeless stories. But technical advances in monitoring and surveillance that have occurred in recent years have surpassed virtually every tyrannical gadget in the fictional canon.

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