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An illuminating history of Harvard College, one of the institutions that made America what it is today, from its precarious colonial origins to its conflicted role as a bastion of elites and a beacon of meritocracy in an age suspicious of both. When Harvard College was born into the colonial...

Why do some smells comfort us while others repel us – and what does that reveal about who we are? Social media’s ‘smell queen’ Dr Ally Louks reveals the secrets of our most overlooked sense. Take a deep sniff. Before you have time to think, your body will react. Our noses have around 400...

An essential collection on race, power and the radical force of love from one of the twentieth century’s most singular voices, newly rediscovered. For June Jordan, writing was inseparable from the conditions of living. Across decades of work, her essays bear witness to the shifting landscapes...

It all began with a charismatic Dutchman who one day was speaking with passion in Parliament and the next was dead . . . Inspired by the vivid life and sudden death of eccentric traffic engineer Hans Monderman, Damian Arnold began a career writing obituaries for The Times. Rather than being...

The discovery of a forgotten graveyard upends a multi-million-dollar Manhattan real estate deal in this richly drawn exploration of the crisis of urban homelessness and its intersection with history In late 2019, the Bowery Residents’ Committee (BRC) put a $1 million nonrefundable downpayment...

A former nanny to the world’s richest families shares an intimate and shocking look at how the global elite exploit others and raise their children to be the next ruling class. The global one percent operate in a different reality from the rest of us, one where they believe they can do no...

What if the story of classical music we've inherited is only half the story? Maestra uncovers the women whose brilliance shaped a millennium of sound From the medieval visionary Hildegard von Bingen and the Romantic-era composer Fanny Hensel to the electronic pioneer Delia Derbyshire and...

From two exciting young reporters at The Wall Street Journal comes the untold story of the rise of the American landlord, the government blunders that created a housing crisis, the next big rent surge that may be just around the corner, and our growing desperation to fight back. Every morning...

Vital lessons and wisdom from StoryCorps’ acclaimed nine-year project of bringing people together from across the American political divide to listen to one another A liberal and a conservative walk into a room. No, it’s not the set-up to a joke. It’s the first step in a remarkable...

From bestselling authors Senator Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi, an essential guide to surviving and thriving in a rigged economy If you’ve ever worried about money—how much you have, need, or want—the problem isn’t you. It’s an economy that has shifted under your feet. A...

A feat of narrative reporting that grapples with familial understanding and conflict, and a parable for understanding the country’s current division, and how we got here—a gripping and powerfully relevant story for our moment. Meet the Joyners: a Southern family that reflects the schism at...

You thought you understood how the patriarchy runs our country. It's so much worse than you think. When the 'Garrick club, list of members' is leaked to Amelia Gentleman, it offers her a concise guide to Britain's male establishment: here high court judges dine with newspaper editors, senior...

In this seminal book, award-winning filmmaker, civil rights attorney, and television personality, Brooke Goldstein, offers a groundbreaking and pragmatic strategy for ending Jew-hatred globally.

A revelatory account of inequality in America offering a bold new solution grounded in local success It’s a refrain that we hear all the time: if only the United States could be more like the Nordics on welfare, the Japanese on high-speed rail, or the British on health care. But what if the...

From the author of Bad Therapy and Irreversible Damage: how a top-down effort to erode male status is leaving a generation lonely, single, and sad. The roots of our modern dating crisis run far deeper than iPhones, hookups, and dating apps. Young women have been encouraged to see themselves as...

From Stephanie Land, critically acclaimed author of bestselling memoirs Maid and Class, a series of autobiographical essays based on the bureaucratic forms that shaped her life. An exploration of the trauma of poverty and finding hope in the face of an American system increasingly devoid of...

A reported road trip across the American economic landscape, documenting the ties between workers’ financial struggles, big business, and broken markets, from The New York Times economics reporter Talmon Joseph Smith. Can America actually afford all that its people and workers deserve? The...

In her first nonfiction book, New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Xochitl Gonzalez traces her own history from working class Brooklyn to the corridors of power in order to illuminate and examine the class divide that defines America today Xochitl Gonzalez has changed...

Proust's In Search of Lost Time is many things. It is a staggering achievement, an evocation of an elite milieu, a literary reckoning with memory; it is also a massive reading challenge, a book more abandoned than read. For Laure Murat - who first read In Search... when she was twenty years old...

A meditative exploration of how people-watching encourages us to be more curious about those around us, teaches us to decode our unique quirks and universal similarities, and enriches our digital-first lives The fascinating practice of people watching is beginning to disappear. Whether we're...