Society & Essays

For (the poor girlfriend of) that friend who “has the confidence of a much taller man.”...

For that friend who deserves a good backhanding–in the form of a Christmas present....

Hardback Ray Kurzweil What will it mean to live free from the limits of our bodies? Who will we become if our minds can be stored and duplicated? What new realms of beauty, connection and wonder m...

For that “friend” who is “kind of a voyeur” and “would totally love something like this.”...

Author: Yuval Noah Harari, Cover: Softback, Pages: 512...

Cover: Hardback, Pages: 304, Author: Florence Given...

Zeke Faux Paperback 304 pages...

Author: Patric Gagne, Cover: Softback, Pages: 368...

Author: Christine Rosen , Cover: Softback...

Olivia Laing Hardback 336 pages A garden contains secrets, we all know that: buried elements that might put on strange growth or germinate in unexpected places. The garden that I chose had walls...

Hardback 224 pages On the morning of 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keepin...

Dmitri Alperovitch and Garrett M Graff Hardback 400 pages A leading national security expert, who publicly predicted Vladimir Putin's intention to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine months ...

Cover: Softback, Pages: 256, Author: Tom Scott...

Annie Jacobsen Paperback There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours: nuclear war. It could start in as little as 26 minut...

Author: Annie Ernaux, Cover: Softback, Pages: 144...

Author: Nigel Slater, Cover: Hardback, Pages: 368...

Author: Parmy Olson, Cover: Softback, Pages: 304...

Ursula K. Le Guin Paperback Ursula K. Le Guin witnessed and contributed to many of the twentieth century’s rebellions and upheavals, including women’s liberation, the Civil Rights m...

Nathan Thrall Paperback 272 pages A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collisionMilad is five years old ...

Softback 324 pages Boobs. Knockers. Jugs. Cans. Baps. Melons. Puppies. Fun bags. Bosoms. Hooters. In the English language there are over 700 expressions for female mammary glands – th...

Martin Wolf Paperback 496 pages From the author of The Shifts and the Shocks, and one of the most influential writers on economics, a reckoning with how and why the relationship between democrac...

Paperback 111 pages Long considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces, A Very Easy Death is a profoundly affecting, day-by-day recounting of her mother's final days after she is hospitalize...

Koa Beck Paperback 320 pages 'Don't judge this book by its cover. Koa Beck knows that feminism includes all women and girls by definition, and is writing to overcome anti-feminist divisions t...

Mona Chollet Paperback 304 pages Renowned journalist Mona Chollet recasts the witch as a powerful role model: an emblem of strength, free to exist beyond the narrow limits society imposes on wome...