Politics and Prose Presents
Politics and Prose Presents brings the renowned author talks hosted at Washington, D.C.'s legendary independent bookstore to listeners anywhere. Each episode features top authors and journalists discussing their latest books, covering biography, politics, science, poetry, fiction and more. The show is a way for book lovers to experience the store's in-person events in podcast form. Listeners are encouraged to subscribe and visit politics-prose.com for more.
Episodes
Akbar Shahid Ahmed — Crossing the Red Line: Biden, His Advisors, and Israel's War in Gaza - with Prem Thakker
A powerful and authoritative account of how the Biden administration fueled atrocities in Gaza, from an award-winning foreign affairs journalist.Following Hamas’s horrific October 7 attack, Israel launched an offensive of staggering violence in Gaza, saying it targeted militants while regularly striking hospitals, schools, and homes. Critically acclaimed journalist Akbar Shahid Ahmed offers extens
Anthony Scaramucci — All the Wrong Moves: How Three Catastrophic Decisions Led to the Rise of Trump - with Katty Kay
We’re living in an age of deep political anger and frustration. Where did it come from? All the Wrong Moves offers a new, eye-opening answer, rooted in history, business, and the author’s firsthand experience, that reveals the true origins of America’s current political crisis.In All the Wrong Moves, Anthony Scaramucci charts how both political parties, over three decades, made a series of catastr
Nadia Murad — I Choose My Beginning: A Story of Courage and Activism - with Marie Arana
In a lyrical and profoundly moving memoir, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad reclaims her extraordinary journey from the embers of devastation to a fight for freedom—and for what comes next when a young girl’s flame cannot be extinguished. In 2014, Nadia Murad was living in northern Iraq when her world was shattered. Fighters from the so-called Islamic State attacked her village, massacring h
Ke Huy Quan — Never Say Die - with Mallory Yu
Ke Huy Quan’s Hollywood adventure began when he was twelve years old, a mere five years after his family escaped Communist Northern Vietnam and settled down to a relatively peaceful life in L.A.’s Chinatown. After attending an open call audition on a whim, he was unexpectedly swept up in the wild world of filmmaking: learning to swim from Harrison Ford on the set of Indiana Jones and the Temple of
Ben Macintyre — Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy - with David Ignatius
From the bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor (“John le Carré’s nonfiction counterpart”—The New York Times) comes the ultimate true-life Cold War thriller: the story of a Russian double agent with a terrible secret—and the key to stopping a nuclear apocalypse. The year is 1981. Tehran is in violent turmoil in the wake of the Iranian Revolution. The Soviets are planning to overthrow the Ay
Peter Bergen — All the Presidents' Wars: Twenty-Five Years of America's War on Terror - with Joby Warrick
From the New York Times best-selling author, a tragic history of the United States’ war on terror across four presidential administrations.2026 is the twenty-fifth anniversary of 9/11, the most devastating attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor. The resulting war on terror cost trillions of dollars and thousands of lives. And yet despite its blunders, this campaign has kept America safe from f
Catherine Grace Katz — Shadow Before the Flame: The Hindenburg Disaster and the Prelude to War - With Robert Costa
A gripping, major new history of the explosion of the “Titanic of the Skies,” the rise of Nazism and the beginning of World War IIFor thirty-seven seconds on May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg lit up the sky over Lakehurst, New Jersey in an indelible conflagration that shocked the world and brought the airship era to a close. In this definitive account, acclaimed historian Catherine Grace Katz brings tog
David Corn — How Russia Won: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America
The definitive, sure to be headline-making, investigation into how Putin successfully mounted a decade-long covert war on the United States and how Donald Trump aided and abetted the operation and upended America and the world.How Russia Won tells the little-understood yet crucial story of how Vladimir Putin waged a secret campaign to subvert and weaken the United States—and how Trump, his MAGA mo
Kiran Desai — The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny: A Novel - with Aminatta Forna
A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years—an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity, by the Booker Prize–winning author of The Inheritance of LossWhen Sonia and Sunny first glimpse each other on an overnight train, they are immediately captivated yet also embarrassed by the fact that their grandparents had on
Sharon Weinberger — Valley of Death: How Big Tech Is Fueling the Future of War - with Dustin Volz
Drawing on deep, exclusive reporting, a veteran national security correspondent reveals how a new military-industrial complex is arising from the cradle of Silicon Valley, with vast implications for American democracy and the global balance of power.Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Alexander Karp. These tech titans are fast becoming some of the most powerful figures in the realm of national security, w
Jessica Tarlov — I Disagree: Winning Arguments Without Losing Friends - with Aaron Parnas
The outspoken liberal voice on the Fox News show The Five shows us how to stay true to our values, find common ground, and communicate with confidence when engaging across political and social divides.Imagine you’re sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner, knowing it’s going to get heated. One uncle is ready to argue about politics, another relative has very different views, and you usually try to sta
Sebastian Barry — The Newer World - with Marie Arana
From “one of the best writers in the English language” (The Washington Post), a sweeping yet intimate novel about one man’s life in the aftermath of the Civil War“I knew as I made my way home that there was no home. All the old things...were gone forever.”Born into bondage in Union-leaning northwestern Tennessee, Tennyson Bouguereau’s life revolves around his sister, Rosalee, his work in the Magan
Jonathan Kaufman — When America Roared: How the 1980s Saved, Then Broke, the Country--and Led Us to Today - with David Wessel
The panoramic story of the 1980s, exploring the triumphs and failures of the decade that shaped the 21st century more than any other, from a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter who witnessed the transformations firsthandIn January 1980, America seemed broken. Inflation raged. Interest rates topped 20 percent. Americans were held hostage in Iran. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan with impunity. Japa
Governor Andy Beshear — Go and Do Likewise: How We Heal a Broken Country - with Governor Wes Moore
Join Governor Andy Beshear for a hopeful conversation about reclaiming faith as a force for good instead of harm and healing a divided nation through our shared values. Centered around his new book, Go and Do Likewise: How We Heal a Broken Country, Governor Beshear will share stories of healing, justice, forgiveness, welcoming, and moral clarity.In Go and Do Likewise, Governor Beshear shares what
Jim Shepard — The Queen of Bad Influences: Stories - with Tania James
Twelve short masterworks from this great American writer of catastrophe fiction, in which lives are upended as much by broken hearts as by collapsing dams, vainglorious wars, gargantuan wildfires, and shipwrecksAcross centuries and wildly diverse locations, Shepard holds us in his grip. We witness the devastating 1935 Labor Day hurricane in Florida from multiple points of view, read the 1864 lette
Ebony Walden — Where I'm From: A Poetic Journey Across Five Continents - with Robert J. Patterson
Perfect for fans of Eat, Pray, Love, this soulful travel memoir blends poetry, global adventure, cultural connection and personal transformation with reflections on race, identity, and belonging.In 2010, twenty-nine-year-old poet Ebony Walden quits her job to go to on an eight-month solo journey across fifteen countries and five continents. Propelled by a sense of purpose and adventure, she moves
Leah C. Stokes — The Carbon Wave: A Story of Democracy, Parenthood, and the Race to Protect Our Planet - with Gerry Petrella, Maxine Joselow, & Christy Goldfuss
The true, inspiring story of the new parents who spearheaded an unlikely climate victory.From the rising climate advocate named to the Time100 Next list, for political junkies and anyone who cares about the environment.They were perhaps an unlikely trio: the professor Leah Stokes, the policy wonk Sonia Aggarwal in the White House, and the DC insider Adrian Deveny in the Senate, but together, they
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz — The Ballad of the Fugitive William Parker: A True Tale of Love, Murder, Treason, and Ordinary Folks Who Saved America - with Nikki M. Taylor
For fans of Master Slave Husband Wife and Django Unchained comes the extraordinary forgotten story of an event known in its day as “the first shots of the Civil War,” from the New York Times bestselling author of Dr. Mütter’s Marvels.The year, 1851. The place, a Quaker farming community turned Underground Railroad stronghold, where a Maryland enslaver had journeyed in pursuit of four men who’d fle
Alona Wartofsky, Charles C. Stephenson, Jr., Kato Hammond — Crankin!: Power and Resilience in Washington DC's Go-Go Culture - with Natalie Hopkinson
The definitive history of go-go music and cultureGo-go is the heart and soul of Washington, DC's African American culture--a source of resilience for the community and a way to celebrate Black lives. As the soundtrack of the District since the mid-1970s, go-go was designated the official music of Washington in 2020, and it has been incorporated into music genres such as hip-hop and R&B for
Marlon James — The Disappearers - with Lily Meyer
In 1988, eight men in Kingston, Jamaica, begin rehearsals for a play. The men are strangers to one another and each has a different reason for being involved. But they all share one inescapable truth: All of them are gay―a “battyman” in Jamaican argot―and all of them must contend with the dangers that such a truth lays bare.One night a mob savagely attacks them, killing one of the men. For the sur
Steve Feldstein — Bytes and Bullets: Global Rivalries, Big Tech, and the New Shape of Modern Warfare - with Marcus Weisgerber
New tech is changing the contours of geopolitical stability—America must act now, or risk losing its global standing forever.Technology has always driven political competition. For decades, the US set the international rules on innovation, standards, and export regulations, using soft power and federal funding to both develop cutting edge tech and prevent its rivals from acquiring it. But in the d
Adam Jentleson — Supermajority: How Democrats Can Build Lasting Power - with Jerusalem Demsas
From the leading political advisor and best-selling author, a revelatory account of how power is built and a blueprint for Democrats in 2026 and beyond.Supermajorities used to be the norm in American politics, yet today it seems unimaginable that our nation could break hard for one party or the other. But as Adam Jentleson demonstrates in Supermajority, his follow up to the “truly excellent” (Ezra
Rebecca Blumenstein & Diana Kapp — The Last Free Women: A Daring Escape from Afghanistan and Coming of Age in America - with Andrea Mitchell & Mursal Rahim
An inside account of the extraordinary effort by The New York Times to evacuate more than 200 Afghans after the fall of Kabul, highlighting four exceptional young women as they forge a new life in America.Kabul; August 15, 2021: The Taliban were coming. The world watched in shock: After the longest war in American history, the Taliban swept into Kabul in a morning. Desperation reigned as the US pu
Nikolas Bowie & Daphna Renan — Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People -with Sherrilyn Ifill
From two acclaimed legal scholars, a new history of the Supreme Court that overturns our most basic assumptions about its role in our democracy, showing how it seized the power it now wields.The Supreme Court claims the extraordinary power to strike down laws passed by Congress—and for more than a century now, it has used this power to undermine democracy. But does the Constitution force us to liv
Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor — End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World - with Wajahat Ali
A scathing investigation into the apocalyptic thinking of the Christian nationalists, tech-bro reactionaries, and populist survivalists who increasingly define the contemporary right—and a recipe for how to fight them. As the planet burns and shared reality melts, a new iteration of the far right is on the march. How can we understand this dangerous new development, and what resources can we draw
Rachel Pastan — We're So Lucky to Live Here - with Matthew Klam
Grief, the transformative power of art, the meaning of family, and housing affordability are the subjects of this story about a young theater director returning to her childhood home after her mother's unexpected death.Gwen Rivlin, 27, wants to keep the big, shabby house with a turret in which she and her mother both grew up, but everyone tells her it's crazy: too expensive and too suburba
Susan Coll — Word Salad - with Tope Folarin
Matilda loves logic and order, and now her structured world is falling apart—in a bookstore.Former economics major Matilda is moving back to her hometown of Washington D.C. to care for her ailing mother, and she’s desperate for money. She takes a job at her neighborhood bookstore and tries, in vain, to make sense of illogical business of books. To make things worse, she’s forced to team up with a
Allison Aubrey — Your Turn: How to Create a Midlife You Love - with Rachel Martin
Not long ago, celebrated journalist Allison Aubrey was having breakfast with her youngest child, who suddenly turned to her and said: Stop looking at me. In that moment, as her daughter signaled a need for independence, Aubrey felt a sting, like she’d been fired. She reminded herself: teenager, individuation. It’s her job to separate. But…ouch!That moment was a microcosm of what felt like a crisis
Jared Huffman — No Prophets: The Fight to Save Democracy from Christian Nationalism - with Congressman Jamie Raskin
From Congressman Jared Huffman, a behind-the-scenes look at the shocking extent of Christian nationalism’s reach in our government—and the fight to defend church-state separation.Sinclair Lewis is said to have predicted, “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.” Democratic congressman Jared Huffman witnessed something eerily like that vision on January
Carolyn Forché — Otherwhere: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2026 - with Maureen Corrigan
From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and central figure in American poetry, a landmark collection of new and selected poems chronicling five decades of work marked by moral courage, radical empathy, and unflinching witness.Over half a century, Carolyn Forché has exemplified how a poet’s voice can cut through the cacophony of an age and speak to our inexhaustible responsibility to each other. Otherwhere
Timothy W. Ryback — 53 Days: How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy - with Margaret Talbot
From internationally acclaimed historian Timothy W. Ryback, the chilling chronicle of how Adolf Hitler overturned a constitutional democracy in less than eight weeksOn September 25, 1930, Adolf Hitler appeared before Germany’s Supreme Court and outlined his plans to destroy the Weimar Republic through democratic means. The judge asked, “So, only through constitutional means?” Hitler replied, “Jawo
Francis Fukuyama — In the Realm of the Last Man: A Memoir - with Laura K. Field
From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The End of History and the Last Man and other books on the most important political questions of our time, comes a strikingly personal intellectual memoir.Francis Fukuyama, a leading public intellectual, is well-known for his landmark, bestselling works of political philosophy and history. Here, for the first time, he charts his political
Tom Rosenstiel — The Next Journalism: How the Press Must Change to Serve Democracy - with Asma Khalid & John Harwood
An urgent case that the survival of democracy depends on reinventing the press, with ten pioneering reforms to help journalism better serve the public—from the co-author of the classic The Elements of Journalism. The crisis in journalism reflects a crisis in American democracy. Faith in news outlets has dwindled, news deserts are expanding, and audiences are turning away from alarmist, partisan, a
Priya Parker — The Art of Fighting: The Transformative Power of Conflict - with Clint Smith
A paradigm-shattering exploration of how we fight and how we build healthy conflict, from the author of The Art of GatheringWe say we want community. Successful teams. High-performing colleagues and workplaces. Dynamic friend groups. Yet many of us don’t understand the crucial element we need to forge long-lasting communities in our lives: healthy conflict.In The Art of Fighting, Priya Parker expl
John DeFerrari — Palaces of the Public: A Cultural History of Washington, DC's Hotels - with Carolyn Muraskin
A unique look at Washington's landmark hotels and its cultural historyAny large city's marquee hotels are a great barometer of its social and cultural life. Washington DC, is exceptional in this regard, because visitors--from officials, diplomats, and lobbyists to everyday tourists--are so critical to the city's essential purpose as the nation's capital. The city's hotels have
Emily Wilson — Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature - with Claire Catenaccio
From the most celebrated translator of our time comes a visionary exploration of how translation reshapes and enriches our understanding of the ancient world.Drawing on twenty years of scholarship and translation experience, Emily Wilson—renowned translator of Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad—explores the difficult choices that translators must make, the pleasures of finding new solutions to old problems
Richard J. Powell — Colorstruck!: Painting, Pigment, Affect - with Tope Folarin
How Black painters use color to create meaning, provoke remembrance, stir emotion, and uplift the spiritColor does more than capture a viewer's attention. It assaults one's equilibrium physically and psychologically. In this stunning book, Richard Powell draws on the concept of "colorstruck," a twentieth-century slang term describing prejudice toward people with darker skin compl
Group Talk with Authors — Challenging Cases: Judges Tell the Stories of High-Profile and Other Tough Cases
Following on the success of Tough Cases, called "A law buff's dream" by headbutler.com, Challenging Cases collects judges' firsthand stories of deciding cases when the world is watchingMost cases judges decide garner little public attention. But occasionally, a case is tried both in the courtroom and in the court of public opinion. In Challenging Cases, some of the country's
Sam A. Miller — Still Lost: Tales from the Year 2080
From the beloved creator of the wildly popular Sam O’Nella Academy YouTube channel, an irreverent and timely science fiction collection that offers a wry look at the not-so-distant futureSam A. Miller, the creator behind Sam O'Nella Academy, has spent ten years teaching his 4.8 million subscribers about the past and the present. Here, he turns towards fiction—and the future…A hyper advanced al
Paul Richter — The Distance Between Our Names: The Untold History of America's War on Japanese Immigrants -with Kathryn Tolbert
A gripping historical account about the harrowing struggles of Japanese immigrants in the US during the years leading to World War II.In 1872, a new Japanese government’s first diplomatic delegation to the United States was greeted with rapturous welcome in San Francisco. For over ten days of lavish parties, the city’s elite admired the emissaries’ silk robes and noble bearing and began forging wh
David Conrad-Pérez — Fire in the Heart of the City: The Triangle Shirtwaist Tragedy and the Origins of Modern Charity - with Heather Boushey
How the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire exposed New York City elites and laid the foundations for modern charityFire in the Heart of the City details the riveting story of what happened when a tragic fire in Greenwich Village threw Adolph Ochs, the ambitious new publisher of the New York Times, and Rose Schneiderman, a defiant young labor organizer, against each other in a momentous conflict. Fol
Hiram L. Smith — Wassup, My N....: The Hidden History of a Controversial Word
The history and meaning of one of the most controversial words in American English.Few words in English are as charged as "nigga" and "n*gger." While the slur "n*gger" is universally recognized as offensive, fierce debates continue over the use of "nigga"--who can say it, what it means, and whether it has been reclaimed as a term of endearment among Black pe
K.S. Shay — Portrait of a Witch Undone - with Ioanna Papari Kosiori
For fans of Starling House and A Discovery of Witches with a Thomas Crown Affair twist: a contemporary New England coven hides the mysteries that lurk in the marshes north of Boston—and how they are connected to the largest unsolved art heist in modern history.Once, Maeve Ryan was the strongest witch of her generation. But Maeve messed up a spell to contact the Lady of the Fens, an eerie Revenant
Stuart E. Eizenstat — The Art of Diplomacy: How American Negotiators Reached Historic Agreements That Changed the World - with Ambassador Carla A. Hills
Now with a substantive afterword covering the start of the second Trump administration A riveting retelling of diplomatic history with praise from Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Bertie Ahern (Ireland), Tony Blair (UK), Ehud Olmert (Israel), and more.Inside the greatest diplomatic negotiations of the past 50 yearsIn one readable volume, diplomat and negotiator Stuart E. Eizenstat covers every major
Tony Fletcher — Pow!: When UK Punk Went Pop, 1980-84 - with Seth Lorinczi
This event will be in partnership with Byrdland Records, the sister record store to Songbyrd Music House.POW is the fascinating memoir of a precocious English teen in the early 1980s who published a music magazine, interviewed many of the era's top artists, befriended rock stars, ran a record label, appeared on television, played in a band and found first love -- all at the same timeIn this se
Nadia Hashimi — City of Widows - with Liza Mundy
From bestselling novelist Nadia Hashimi—a gripping, occasionally terrifying, yet ultimately hopeful novel focusing on the women of Afghanistan in the years since the Taliban regained power.In February 2020 the US began to withdraw troops from Afghanistan after nearly twenty years of occupation. A whole generation of Afghan women had been born during that time—women who had grown up in relative pea
Joby Warrick — The Jackal: The Rise and Fall of Carlos, the World's First Super-Terrorist - with Ian Shapira
The spectacular rise and dramatic fall of super-assassin Carlos the Jackal—one of history’s most infamous terrorist masterminds—told with new revelations from the Jackal himself, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Black Flags.A black-bereted, gun-slinging avatar of one of the most turbulent eras in global politics, Carlos the Jackal burst onto the world stage in 1975 as the first true celebri
Skye Perryman — Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: How to Reclaim Your Power, Fight for Freedom, and Reimagine Democracy - with Eugene Daniels
Skye Perryman—TIME 100 honoree and CEO of Democracy Forward—offers an urgent, inspiring blueprint for how ordinary people can fight for freedom in extraordinary times.The future of our country lies in all of our hands. From protecting voting rights and public schools to finding courage in the face of fear, Skye Perryman makes the case that defending democracy isn’t the job of lawyers or politician
James Loeffler — Exceptional Hatred: Antisemitism and the Fight over Free Speech in Modern America - with Franklin Foer
A leading historian’s revelatory exploration of antisemitism in the United States—from 1940s anti-Jewish riots until today—showing that it has long served as a frontline in our wars over freedom of speech and the nature of American liberalism Few issues are as vexed today as antisemitism and free speech. There is scarcely an arena—college campuses, congressional hearings, immigration courtrooms, s
Virginia Eubanks — A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving: Lessons on Love, Care, and Survival: A Memoir -with Jason Resendez
What do you do when someone you love, maybe the person you love most in the world, is in trouble—even drowning? Do you jump in to save them? Will you be able to bring both of you back to shore? One night, Virginia Eubanks received the kind of news we all fear. Her beloved partner had been brutally beaten, just steps from their house. Virginia jumped into the water. She dived into the responsibilit
Nina Simon — My Sister Is Going to Kill Me - with S.A. Cosby
From the New York Times bestselling author of the runaway hit Mother-Daughter Murder Night, a Reese’s Book Club pick, comes another fun, family-centered whodunnit about two sisters who work together to find a killer as they raft down the rapids of the Grand Canyon.What's a family vacation without a little murder?Liv and Mandy Chisholm’s yearly sister trip is a sacred tradition, an attempt to b
Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez — Conversion Therapy Dropout: A Queer Story of Faith and Belonging - with Andrew Marin
A gay Christian's behind-the-scenes account of evangelical megachurches and eight years in conversion therapy before finding wholeness and authenticity.Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez was an invisible architect behind evangelical Christianity's digital empire, crafting messages of belonging for some of the most influential megachurches -- Hillsong Church, Elevation Church, Willow Creek -- all
Michael E. Shepherd — Rural Pain, Republican Gain: How the Republican Party Is Killing Rural America and Why Democrats Are Blamed (Chicago Studies in American Politics) - with Marcia Brown
An eye-opening look at how Republican policies have affected health outcomes in rural communities and why poor, rural white voters are turning to the Republican Party―not despite this harm, but because of it.Over the last four decades, the health of rural Americans has been in free fall. Just as opioid and gun deaths have ripped apart rural communities, hospitals have closed at alarming rates, lea
Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn — I Have This Thing for Flowers: Essays on the Roots of Relationships - with Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes
A story of love, marriage, and flowers from beloved writer and gardening enthusiast Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn Six months before her wedding, Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn’s fiancé broke off their engagement. Stunned, reeling, and newly uninsured, Alysia married her friend Sarah in an arrangement that secured them both free health insurance. They moved in together in the midst of the pandemic, and with time
Nicholas Reynolds — Ortiz’s War: The Allies' Secret Weapon Against the Nazis in France - with Dr. Jeffrey Rogg
Peter J. Ortiz’s path to becoming the most battle-decorated member of America’s first spy agency—and one of the most decorated Marines of World War II—was unlike any other. Born in New York and raised between California and France, he would have stints as a merchant seaman, dude ranch manager, race car driver, lion tamer, circus performer, and Hollywood stuntman and actor. As a teenager, Ortiz ran
Behind the Issue with The Atlantic: Featuring Rose Horowitch in conversation with Yoni Appelbaum
Politics and Prose has partnered with The Atlantic for an evening of discussion surrounding the magazine’s August issue. Atlantic staff writer Rose Horowitch will discuss her cover article, “The End of Reading Is Here.” She will discuss her approach to research and writing the article, as well as the implications behind the lower reading rates. Rose will be in conversation with Yoni Appelbaum. App
Kurt Andersen — The Breakup - with Sean Rameswaram
A marriage cracks apart as a near-future United States redraws its borders in this penetrating and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Fantasyland.Natalie and Asher’s marriage has long been marked by fault lines, quiet rifts in how they view their fellow Americans and navigate AI-suffused life in 2045. After twenty-three years together, and after surviving the two years of c
Talitha L. LeFlouria — Searching for Jane Crow: Black Women and Mass Incarceration in America from the Auction Block to the Cell Block - with Marcus Board Jr.
Gives voice to the Black women whose lives were devastated by the carceral system and sheds powerful light on its slavery-based roots to transform how we think about mass incarcerationHistorian Talitha L. LeFlouria centers Black women at the core of a fresh argument: that the system of mass incarceration was established as protection for the institution of slavery and the profits of enslavers and
Tad Devine — How the Democrats Screwed Bernie - with Chuck Todd
An explosive inside account of how the Democratic establishment used every weapon in its arsenal to subvert the will of the people and stop Bernie Sanders’s presidential bid in 2016—told by his chief strategist who witnessed it all firsthand.One question haunted the American left after the 2016 election: how could a grassroots movement that drew massive crowds and shattered fundraising records fai
Casey Michel — United States of Oligarchy: How America's Wealthiest Ally with Dictators, Weaken the U.S., and Destroy Democracy - with Matt Duss
A staggering examination of how America's wealthiest infiltrated the government and allied with dictators, transforming the U.S. from democracy to oligarchy.For years, a small group of billionaires has amassed increasing power, steering American politics for their own benefit. Many of these figures are familiar. There’s Elon Musk, who has used his wealth to help place Donald Trump back in the
Kaitlyn Tiffany — The Housewives Underground: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the JFK Assassination Our Most Enduring Mystery - with Adrienne LaFrance
This event will be in partnership with The Atlantic.The untold story of the women who debunked the Warren Report—a riveting history of obsession, heartbreak, and the myth of the great American centuryIn the winter of 1967, the official account of the Kennedy assassination was beginning to unravel. A scattered group of Americans had pointed to major problems with the report prepared by President Jo
Kim Phillips-Fein — Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight against Equality in America - with Timothy Shenk
A Pulitzer-finalist historian charts a 250-year-old intellectual and political tradition—the conviction that all Americans are NOT created equal.We think of the United States as a nation committed, at least on paper, to ideals of human equality, under God and/or under the law. But as robust as the notion of the “American dream” is a longstanding defense of social hierarchies, including vast gulfs
Shasta Grant — When We Were Feral - with Chloe Yelena Miller
Thirteen-year-old Maggie lives in a trailer on the edge of a rural New Hampshire town, where her brother barely speaks, her father works double shifts at the gun factory, and her mother disappeared without a trace. She finds comfort in the warmth of her best friend Sarah’ s seemingly perfect family— until a classmate’ s mother goes missing, and the girls are drawn to Erin, the daughter left behind
Chang-rae Lee — A Tender Age - with Kat Chow
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, a story of guilt, innocence, and a boy on the cusp of adolescence.A spellbinding exploration of American masculinity and family dynamics as seen through the confused eyes of a prepubescent child of immigrants, A Tender Age joins the rich tradition of the American bildungsroman. The natural descendent of characters like Huckleberry Finn and Holden Caufield, Korean-
Dr. Lucy McBride — Beyond the Prescription: A Doctor's Guide to Taking Charge of Your Health - with Franklin Foer
A practical road map to become a more empowered patient and reclaim agency over your health.As a primary care physician with her own healthcare struggles, Dr. Lucy McBride knows what it’s like to feel powerless—caught between a health care system that rushes through appointments focused on testing and prescriptions, and a wellness industry full of expensive false promises. She understands the frus
Aaron Mahnke — Exhumed: Unearthing the History of the American Vampire
From critically acclaimed podcaster and bestselling author Aaron Mahnke comes this engrossing and macabre exploration of the folklore and early medical practices that led to the New England Vampire Panic in the 1890s.What would drive a man to exhume the body of his daughter and remove her heart? That question has haunted Aaron Mahnke, creator and host of the award-winning podcast Lore. Fueled by a
Seth Masket — The Elephants in the Room: How Trump Voters Seized the Party from Republican Leaders - with Hans Noel
The 2024 nomination of Donald Trump was both predictable and wildly unusual. Parties almost never nominate someone who has previously lost the presidency - let alone a candidate who helped organize a riot and faced dozens of criminal indictments. Why, then, did Republicans nominate Trump for a third time? In this fascinating follow-up to Learning from Loss, leading scholar and political analyst Se
Lynda Schuster — A Burning Hunger: One Family’s Struggle Against Apartheid
Reissued for the 50th anniversary of the Soweto Uprising, A Burning Hunger reveals how one family’s courage ignited resistance and forever changed South Africa.If the Mandelas were the generals in the fight for black liberation, the Mashininis were the foot soldiers. Theirs is a story of exile, imprisonment, torture, and loss, but also of dignity, courage, and strength in the face of appalling adv
Dave Zirin — The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn
A biography of iconic radical historian Howard Zinn, examining his life and work as a progressive icon and thought leader through the story of the times that shaped him as well as the United States of America.From The Nation magazine columnist and New York Times bestselling author Dave Zirin, The People's Historian is a deeply researched biography of Howard Zinn, the beloved author of the clas
Paul L. Kimmel, M.D —The Body's Keepers: A Social History of Kidney Failure and Its Treatments
A remarkable account of the kidney and the scientific, medical, and health evolution tied to our understanding of it.The kidney is an extraordinary organ - in many ways the regulator, the metronome, the keeper of the human body's delicate equilibrium. On a given day, minute by minute, it purifies the body of toxins it encounters from diet, climate, activity, and injury. It allows us to be and
George Pelecanos — The Blue Flame
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