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A powerful and explosive memoir of poverty and politics, and the realities of life in Westminster. Tara Jane O’Reilly grew up on a council estate a mere bus ride away from Parliament, but a world away from the hallowed halls of power. Dropping out of school at sixteen after a childhood marred...

Why Big Labor moved to the right—and the fight ahead for the left to win back America’s working class Unions helped construct the American middle class, defeat Jim Crow, and advance progressive rights, but in Trump’s America, the labor movement is changing. In Big Labor's Big Shift...

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...

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...

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...

Were our young adults mis-sold a future? In 1980s Britain, the line was that anything was possible if you worked hard enough, whether that be owning a home or going to university. Now, house prices are exorbitant and both student loans and childcare costs have skyrocketed. Birth rates are...

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...

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 laser-sharp examination of how elite universities, in their neglect of sociological reasoning, failed our society's biggest test: that of an airborne pandemic. Hobbled by conservative cuts to education beginning in the Reagan era, universities became increasingly consumer-focused, giving rise...

For readers of Capital in the Twenty-First Century and Why Nations Fail, a bold, revelatory history of confiscation, or the government seizure of private property, stretching from medieval Europe to World War II and illuminating its role in the biggest atrocities—and most revolutionary social...

A revelatory exploration of the ways in which wealth – and the lack of it – shapes our lives, told through the stories of ten people, from award-winning data journalist and artist Mona Chalabi. Anna has a comfortable life in a beautiful house thanks to her husband – until he suddenly asks...

A visually striking exploration of money—and the lack of it—in America told through the lives of ten individuals, from a Pulitzer Prize–winning data journalist and artist “Astonishing . . . Chalabi’s taboo-busting transparency about peoples’ financial lives is revolutionary enough...

A New York Times bestselling historian confronts the myth of American meritocracy and our enduring reverence for the uber-rich—and how that feedback loop corrodes democracy Americans are taught to see aristocracy as everything we are not. Yet from the Revolution forward, the nation has...

Gandhi for a new century: his major legacies and why they still matter, from his foremost biographer. Any shortlist of the most impactful political leaders of the twentieth century must include Gandhi, and once we eliminate the tyrants—Mao, Stalin, and Hitler—Gandhi stands virtually alone...

This is the story of a crime that reverberated around the world. The victim is a tree. For more than a century, the tree at Sycamore Gap stood along Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. Planted in the nineteenth century, it became an iconic local landmark. It was immortalised in the 1991 film...

As inequality, inflation, and overwhelming corporate power threaten democracy, a rising-star economist asks what it would mean to create an anti-fascist economics that guarantees dignity for all. On the night of President Trump's second presidential victory, economist Isabella Weber tweeted...

For fans of the beloved HBO series The Gilded Age, a definitive volume on life and thought in America during the era—now reissued with a beautiful new cover. With Season 3 of the hit Julian Fellowes HBO series The Gilded Age breaking records in summer 2025 with its highest ratings ever—and...

Träume kennen keine Herkunft: die Geschichte eines unwahrscheinlichen Aufstiegs Mahmut Martin Yüksel wächst als Kind jesidisch-kurdischer Eltern in einem Dorf in Niedersachsen auf. Am Küchentisch fliegt eine bunte Mischung aus Sprachen hin und her: Georgisch,Türkisch und Kurdisch – und...