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Tuesday, March 31, 2026

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Billionaire Backlash: The Age of Corporate Scandal and How It Could Save Democracy by Pepper Culpepper and Taeku Lee

The ABCs of California’s Native Bees by Krystle Hickman

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Billionaire Backlash: The Age of Corporate Scandal and How It Could Save Democracy by Pepper Culpepper and Taeku Lee

Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay A fundamental political question lies at the heart of Billionaire Backlash by Pepper Culpepper and Taeku Lee: who makes the rules? Is it individual billionaires…

The ABCs of California’s Native Bees by Krystle Hickman

Being Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History by Andrew Burstein

California Rewritten: A Journey Through the Golden State’s New Literature by John Freeman

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California Review of Books offers readers smart, concise and timely reviews of new books, along with regular reviews of older books that we think deserve another look. While we will consider reviewing any good book published anywhere in the world, we admit to having a special fondness for work published in our home state. As we say: Our hearts are in California, but our interests are everywhere. More about us here.