December 2020 Issue
Lawrence Freedman
No Time for Dreams
A Promised Land
By Barack Obama
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November 2020 Issue
Michael Cox
Is He Mad or Just Pretending?
Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World
By H R McMaster
The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
By John Bolton
The Madman Theory: Trump Takes on the World
By Jim Sciutto
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October 2020 Issue
Piers Brendon
Friends with Benefits
The Churchill Complex: The Rise and Fall of the Special Relationship
By Ian Buruma
Collateral Damage: Britain, America and Europe in the Age of Trump
By Kim Darroch
LR
July 2020 Issue
Lawrence Rosen
For God & Party
Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump
By Sarah Posner
LR
July 2020 Issue
Thomas Blaikie
Peace Maker & Flower Arranger
Protocol: The Power of Diplomacy and How to Make It Work for You
By Capricia Penavic Marshall
June 2020 Issue
Sophie Duncan
Reader with a Cause
Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
By Zena Hitz
LR
June 2020 Issue
Laurence Kilpatrick
Control, Alt, Mistreat
Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber
By Susan Fowler
Uncanny Valley
By Anna Wiener
May 2020 Issue
Leo Robson
His Own Nemesis
Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth
By Benjamin Taylor
May 2020 Issue
Richard Norton-Taylor
For Your Eyes Only, and Theirs
Snowden’s Box: Trust in the Age of Surveillance
By Jessica Bruder & Dale Maharidge
Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the Surveillance State
By Barton Gellman
LR
March 2020 Issue
Piers Brendon
The Only Way is Ethics
Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump
By Joseph S Nye Jr
LR
October 2002 Issue
Sam Leith
Another Shandy?
Middlesex
By Jeffrey Eugenides
LR
May 2000 Issue
John Dugdale
Clinton As Greek Hero
The Human Stain
By Philip Roth
LR
October 2019 Issue
Mia Levitin
#MeToo in the Making
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
By Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey
LR
September 2019 Issue
Stephen Evans
One Day in September
Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
By Mitchell Zuckoff
August 2019 Issue
Michael Burleigh
All the President’s Hitmen
Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Definitive History of Secret CIA Assassins, Armies & Operators
By Annie Jacobsen
LR
November 2018 Issue
Ed Vulliamy
The Dealer Will See You Now
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America
By Beth Macy
American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
By Chris McGreal
July 2018 Issue
Jurek Martin
Voice of America
The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
By Ben Rhodes
LR
February 2002 Issue
John Dugdale
Chip, Gary and Denise
The Corrections
By Jonathan Franzen
LR
February 2018 Issue
Michael Burleigh
Lethal Intelligence
Directorate S: The CIA and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001–2016
By Steve Coll
LR
June 2017 Issue
Piers Brendon
The Audacity of Hype
Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama
By David J Garrow
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