Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 3: The Masters of History by Yuval Noah Harari
(Signal)
May 27, 2025
THE THICK BOOKS by Israel’s most globally popular public intellectual, like last year’s Nexus, lead a lot of readers to wish for a more digestible approach, and he’s spent the past few years delivering it in an adaptation of his first major work. The third volume of his comic-book-style retelling of his blockbuster ponders whether humanity is united by empire, money, religion — or something else entirely. The characters who try to dominate society, Harari argues, often end up dividing it instead. (Middle-grade readers get their own parallel set of big-picture explorations, drawn out in another Harari series called Unstoppable Us.) Marc Weisblott
