2021's Best, Most Urgent Books of Current Affairs

by John Woodrow Cox

An indispensable contribution to the debate about gun violence. Full review >

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by Patrick Radden Keefe

A definitive, damning, urgent tale of overweening avarice at tremendous cost to society. Full review >

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by Mark Oppenheimer

A stunning book that offers an eloquent portrait of an antisemitic attack and its effect on a neighborhood. Full review >

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by Evan Osnos

An elegant survey of the causes and effects of polarization in America. Full review >

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by George Packer

A thought-provoking study in civics, history, and the decline and fall of self-government. Full review >

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by Derecka Purnell

An informed, provocative, astute consideration of salvific alternatives to contemporary policing and imprisonment. Full review >

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by Elizabeth D. Samet

A cogent analysis of the cultural realities of war. Full review >

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by Lawrence Wright

Maddening and sobering—as comprehensive an account of the first year of the pandemic as we’ve yet seen. Full review >

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