Politics

It is about the making—and unmaking—of a modern leader. It is about the internal contradictions of a man who champions democratic ideals but leads a party long defined by centralised authority. It is about the clash between inherited...

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man at the top. But in the 21st century, that cartoon bears little resemblance to reality. Nowadays, autocracies are run not by one bad guy, but by...

Have you ever questioned why, despite the avalanche of self-help books and optimization hacks, we remain embroiled in multiple global health crises? Populations worldwide are gaining life-shortening excess weight (even in poorer countries), and...

The Trinity of Fundamentals follows the story of 22-year-old Kan'an during his nine years of hiding from the occupation between 1982 and 1991. Driven by an unshakable commitment to the Palestinian cause, Kan'an takes the reader through his compelling...

Jon Lee Anderson first reported from Afghanistan in the late 1980s, covering the US-backed mujahideen’s insurrection against the Soviet-backed regime in Kabul. Within days of the 9/11 attacks, he was again on the ground as an early eyewitness to...

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil...

America’s bestselling biographer reveals the origins of the most revolutionary sentence in the Declaration of Independence, the one that defines who we are as Americans—and explains how it should shape our politics today.“Isaacson uses...

'[He] inspired a generation ... He changed the course of history' -- Barack Obama.As Martin Luther King, Jr. prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963, he drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love, a volume of his best-known lectures...

A brilliant exploration of freedom—what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our only chance for survival—by the acclaimed Yale historian and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Tyranny.Timothy...

When success feels elusive, try reshaping the definition. That's what Moral Ambition makes the case for, as well as giving you the blueprints to accomplish.INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER | Bloomberg Businessweek's Best Business Books of the Year |...

Laura Bates delivers a much-needed reality check with brutal honesty. Going beneath the surface of how artificial intelligence acts as an outlet to amplify abuse and misogyny, this is an eye-opening read. Delving into topics like dehumanization of women,...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | USA TODAY BESTSELLER   LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER  J.P. MORGAN NEXTLIST SELECTIONIn his final book, the late Henry Kissinger joins forces with two leading technologists to mount “a...

As human presence in space feels closer than ever, a lot of questions arise. Brimming with valuable insights, humor and witty commentary, this is the perfect read for starry-eyed earthlings pondering our existence across the universe. * THE...

An urgent manifesto to defeat authoritarianism, by one of the world’s great progressive voices. Today, the USA is a government of the billionaires, by the billionaires, for the billionaires. As inequalities grow starker and authoritarianism takes...

Providing an immensely refreshing and long-overdue view on British politics from outside the Westminster bubble, this revelatory book from the Mayors of Greater Manchester and the Liverpool City Region delivers a visionary yet tangible roadmap for...

''This century''s most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism'' Angela DavisWritten at the height of the Algerian war for independence from French colonial rule and first published in 1961, Frantz Fanon''s Wretched of the Earth has...

Originally published in 2004 and updated in 2016, this beacon of positivity and possibility remains as relevant as ever, urging readers eschew despair and strive for forward movement, however small.“No writer has better understood the mix of fear...

Using letters, personal stories and declassified files, Elyse Graham highlights the brave efforts of the real-life academics-turned-spies who bravely challenged the Nazis during World War II. The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies,...

Named a Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement, The Times, Spectator, and The Economist.The English first materialized as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. From...

A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in the highly anticipated debut novel from one of The New Yorker ’s rising stars.I’d seen the Senator speak a few times before my life got caught up,...