In Optical Illusions: The False Promise of Optimization, COCO KRUMME explores how optimization has taken over the world – and the urgent case for a new approach. In Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech, BRIAN MERCHANT discusses how automation changed our world and how it’s shaping our future. Moderated …
In The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens, DR. RICHARD HAASS offers a provocative guide to reenvisioning citizenship if American democracy is to survive. The United States faces dangerous threats from Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, terrorists, climate change, and future pandemics, but, writes Haass, the greatest danger comes not from abroad …
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Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino” is HÉCTOR TOBAR’s personal exploration of what it means to be Latino in the U.S. Taking on colonialism, public policy, immigration, media, and pop culture, he decodes the meaning of “Latino” as a racial and ethnic identity and gives voice to the anger …
JOSEPH SASSOON’s The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire is a saga of the making – and undoing – of a family dynasty. In The Money Kings: The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transformed Wall Street and Shaped Modern America, DANIEL SCHULMAN shares the story of the German-Jewish …
In TANANARIVE DUE's work of historical fiction, The Reformatory: A Novel, 12-year-old Robbie Stephens Jr. is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, furthering his journey into the terrors of the Jim Crow South. In Our Missing Hearts: A Novel by CELESTE NG, a young boy whose mother disappeared when he was …
King: A Life is the first major biography of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. in decades; in it, JONATHAN EIG offers an intimate view of an emotionally troubled man who was rarely at peace with himself. In Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity, LAURA MECKLER tells the story of …
In Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism, JEFFREY TOOBIN details the profound legacy of McVeigh, from the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing to the January 6, 2021, insurrection. Featuring interviews with key figures such as Bill Clinton, Homegrown provides not only a powerful retelling of one of the great outrages of our time, …
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From journalist LUKE RUSSERT, Look for Me There: Grieving My Father, Finding Myself is an exploration of one’s place in the world in the face of crushing grief. It chronicles the emotional story of a young man taking charge of his life, reexamining his relationship with his parents, and finally grieving his larger-than-life father, who …
In the dystopian Chain-Gang All-Stars: A Novel, NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH offers a clear-eyed look at the American prison system's unholy alliance of systemic racism, unchecked capitalism, and mass incarceration – and what freedom in this country really means. In JINWOO CHONG’s Flux: A Novel, a young man's reality unravels when he suspects that his mysterious …
In her highly anticipated debut, Legitimate Kid: A Memoir, AIDA RODRIGUEZ chronicles her whirlwind life – from being kidnapped (twice!) and enduring homelessness with her children to securing an HBO Max special and multiple development deals. Rodriguez used her gifts and worked tirelessly to turn her pain into biting comedy that takes on everything from …
Jane Start had a hit once, 10 years ago. Now she’s 33, broke, newly single and living out of four garbage bags at her parents’ house. In This Bird Has Flown: A Novel, SUSANNA HOFFS, lead singer of ’80s band the Bangles, explores love and the ghosts of our past – while offering an insider’s …
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A special event featuring many of this year’s honorees, including NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH, AALIYAH BILAL, ERIN BOW, KENNETH M. CADOW, LIZZIE DAVIS, OLIVER DE LA PAZ, ELIOT DUNCAN, JONATHAN EIG, CRISTINA RIVERA GARZA, HUDA FAHMY, STÊNIO GARDEL, ANNELYSE GELMAN, TANIA JAMES, MICHAEL G. LONG, DAN NOTT, JOSÉ OLIVAREZ, PRUDENCE PEIFFER, JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS, MONA SUSAN …
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