Top 10
Anti-fascist Economics: In Defense of Affordability, Dignity, and Democracy
Isabella Weber. Random House, Oct. 13 ($32, ISBN 979-8-217-15443-2)
Weber, an economist who made waves by arguing that pandemic-era inflation was caused by corporate greed, warns that capitalist excesses are paving the way for fascism.
Bad Boy for Life: The Rise and Fall of Sean Combs
Cheyenne Roundtree. Holt, Sept. 29 ($32.99, ISBN 978-1-250-41116-7)
The Rolling Stone journalist who broke the story of abuse allegations against Sean Combs expands her investigation.
The Castle: Adventures in a World of Unraveling Men
Jon Ronson. Riverhead, Sept. 1 ($32, ISBN 978-1-59463-420-8)
Men are becoming increasingly detached from reality, according to the author of So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, who journeys deep into the heart of modern male maladjustment to figure out why.
Crossing the Red Line: Biden, His Advisors, and Israel’s War in Gaza
Akbar Shahid Ahmed. Norton, Sept. 22 ($31.99, ISBN 978-1-324-11819-0)
HuffPost correspondent Ahmed provides the inside story of Biden and his inner circle’s refusal to bow to public criticism of his administration’s “blank check” for Israel.
End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Sept. 15 ($28, ISBN 978-0-374-62138-4)
The disparate elements of the new right—technologists, ethno-nationalists, and religious fundamentalists—are united in their belief that a cleansing cataclysm is imminent, and such nihilism can be defeated by an upbeat, optimistic left, posit Klein and Taylor.
Making a Killing: Capitalism, Cops, and the War on Black Life
Robin D.G. Kelley. Metropolitan, Jan. 19 ($34.99, ISBN 978-1-250-80307-8)
Kelley excavates the history of police brutality against African Americans, finding Black resistance to capitalist violence and exploitation to be the perennial tip of the spear in the fight against fascism.
Man in the Mirror: Hope, Struggle, and Belonging in an American City
Anand Giridharadas. Knopf, Sept. 29 ($35, ISBN 978-0-593-80201-4)
Journalist Giridharadas takes a multifaceted look at the 2023 subway slaying of Jordan Neely by Daniel Penny.
The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State
Jill Lepore. Liveright, Aug. 25 ($29.99, ISBN 978-1-324-09842-3)
The spread of AI is a danger to democracy that threatens to bring about the final form of the totalitarian state as envisioned by Hannah Arendt, argues Pulitzer winner Lepore.
Terrestrial
Cristina Rivera Garza, trans. by Christina MacSweeney. Hogarth, Sept. 15 ($28, ISBN 978-0-593-98008-8)
The author of Liliana’s Invincible Summer weaves together lyrical accounts of young women traversing the fringes of Mexico and the U.S.
We Radiant Things: Notes on Being Alien and Becoming Cyborg
Franny Choi. Ecco, Oct. 6 ($28, ISBN 978-0-06-324021-6)
Poet Choi explores what frequent sci-fi representations of cyborgs as Asian femmes reveal about race, gender, and technology.
Longlist
Amistad
Back: Essays on the Soul and Spine of America by Lauren Michele Jackson (Oct. 13, $26.99, ISBN 978-0-06-304390-9) delves into uses of the human back, and the weight it bears, as a metaphor for beauty, gender, labor, race, and solidarity in American culture.
Astra House
Project 1933: Fascism Then and Now by Adrian Daub (Jan. 12, $28, ISBN 978-1-6626-0368-6) examines diaries from 1933 Germany—kept by Thomas Mann, Hannah Arendt, and others—to get to the bottom of whether America is undergoing a political moment analogous to the Nazi takeover.
Atlantic Monthly Press
Other: Race, Sex, and the Dangerous Infatuation with Human Categories by Angela Saini (Jan. 12, $28, ISBN 978-0-8021-6860-3) explores the growth of official recordkeeping of race and sex data since the 1990s and warns that it amounts to a potentially dangerous system of pseudoscientific classification and mass surveillance.
Atria
Breaking Awake: A Reporter’s Search for a New Life, and a New World, Through Drugs by P.E. Moskowitz (Dec. 8, $20 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-6680-0778-5) draws on the author’s and others’ experiences to spotlight how vast swaths of Americans are using drugs, both licit and illicit, to cope with the country’s collective mental health crisis.
Beacon
The Bullwhip’s Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence and America’s Racial Caste System by Kamau Bobb (Oct. 20, $27.95, ISBN 978-0-8070-2343-3) argues that the clamor for AI involvement in education, like many so-called improvements in the history of American schooling, is a Trojan horse for perpetuating segregation.
No One Loves an Angry Woman: An Exvangelical Coming-of-Rage Story by Gemma Hartley (Sept. 22, $27.95, ISBN 978-0-8070-2068-5) uses the author’s own upbringing to probe how the evangelical church’s patriarchal norms permeate American girlhood, resulting in a country of adult women with suppressed ambitions and desires.
Bloomsbury
Brought to You By: How Corporations Warped the Truth, Conned the Public, and Broke Democracy by Amy Westervelt (Sept. 22, $32.99, ISBN 978-1-63973-632-4) investigates how corporations have built a vast apparatus of think tanks, lobbyists, sponsored university labs, and business-friendly news networks to control Americans’ access to information.
Crown
I Want to Be Famous: When Everybody and Nobody Is a Celebrity by Bobby Finger and Lindsey Weber (Sept. 29, $33, ISBN 979-
8-217-08832-4) examines the state of fame in the internet era, as D-Listers proliferate and A-Listers struggle to stay relevant.
The Power of No: A Celebration by Anna Holmes (Sept. 1, $24, ISBN 978-0-593-44457-3). The Jezebel founder and former New York Times “Work Friend” advice columnist urges women and other marginalized readers to reflect on the ways they have been disempowered from saying “no” in their professional and personal lives.
Doubleday
The New Dark Ages: The Death of Reading and the Dawn of the Post-Literate Society by James Marriott
(Oct. 6, $25, ISBN 978-0-385-55294-3) contends that literacy jump-started modern civilization, and that with its decline society is headed for a collapse.
Duke Univ.
Personal Demons: Possession Narratives of Late Liberalism by Grace Lavery (Oct. 20, $35 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-4780-3909-9) uses narratives of possession, demonic and otherwise, to explore how the modern world produces scapegoats in the form of trans bodies, and argues that the radical subjectivity of trans people challenges neoliberalism’s conception of a standardized human experience.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In the Realm of the Last Man: A Memoir by Francis Fukuyama (Sept. 8, $29, ISBN 978-0-374-62043-1) draws on the author’s five decade long intellectual journey—including his break with neoconservative movement over the Iraq War—to reflect on the troubled fate of liberalism and democracy.
The Strangers: J.D. Vance and the Rise of the Techno-Religious Ruling Class by Peter Jamison (Jan. 19, $30, ISBN 978-0-374-61849-0) chronicles how a close-knit group of reactionary intellectuals and tech investors who supported JD Vance’s political ascent—including Patrick Deneen and Peter Thiel—have taken the reins of the conservative movement.
Flatiron
The Lies We Tell for America: A Memoir by Ber Anena (Nov. 10, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-250-41201-0) draws on the author’s experiences to spotlight the difficulties, including food and housing insecurity, that international students face in navigating the U.S. higher education system.
Graywolf
Postmuslim: A Testimony by Youssef Rakha (Sept. 15, $18 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-64445-415-2) explores the past three decades of Islam’s clash with the West from a secular Muslim perspective, finding inspiration for the future in the multiculturalism embodied by the Ottoman Empire.
Triage by Claudia Rankine (Aug. 4, $28, ISBN 978-1-64445-400-8). The poet and essayist probes, among other topics, the meaning of “collapse,” the devastation of Gaza, and the necessity of grieving while demanding action.
Harper
Pay Attention: How the Algorithms and Media Wars Are Suppressing Truth and Rewiring Your Brain by David Pakman (Sept. 22, $30, ISBN 978-0-06-356980-5) spotlights how the dark arts of digital media are fueling a totalitarian, post-truth future.
The United States of Ambivalence by Uzodinma Iweala (Jan. 5, $27.99, ISBN 978-0-06-304244-5). The author of Beasts of No Nation and Speak No Evil ruminates on race in America and the increasingly fraught politics of the past decade.
HarperOne
As If We Were Staying: How We Build a Flourishing Future in a World That’s Falling Apart by Spencer R. Scott (Nov. 10, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-06-344118-7) draws on the author’s experience cofounding a collectivist regenerative farm to contemplate how people living within the false, cage-like reality of capitalism can reconnect to the true reality of the natural world.
The Glass Box: The Shocking True Story of How CrossFit Broke the Rules, Made Millions, and Changed Fitness Forever by Calum Marsh (Oct. 27, $30, ISBN 978-0-06-347522-9) investigates CrossFit’s mercurial founder, Greg Glassman; the company’s meteoric rise and fall, both fueled by a signature reckless machismo; and its indelible impact on fitness culture.
Haymarket
Speculative Violence: The Visual Politics of AI-Powered Authoritarianism by Donatella Della Ratta (Jan. 12, $19.95 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-88890-854-9) explores how the glossy aesthetics of generative AI aid and abet military ambitions by normalizing fantasies of violence and erasure, as with Trump’s AI-generated, wholly depopulated “Gaza Riviera.”
Knopf
Redemption: Faith, Justice, and Sisterhood on Death Row by Lawrence Wright (Oct. 20, $35, ISBN 978-0-593-80508-4) profiles a convent of nuns who minister to women on death row in Texas, drawing parallels between their cloistered existences, and questioning the legitimacy of some of the condemned women’s convictions.
Little, Brown
Big Math: The Hidden Codes That Run Our World by Steven Strogatz and Alex Townsend (Nov. 10, $30, ISBN 978-0-316-58158-5) spotlights the handful of mathematical ideas, such as matrices and vectors, undergirding the major technological breakthroughs like algorithms and AI that are now radically changing human society.
Our Arab: On Longing, Belonging, and Hope by Zaina Arafat (Oct. 20, $28, ISBN 978-0-316-58468-5) reflects on what it means to be part of the Palestinian diaspora as the Palestinian homeland is being destroyed.
Mariner
The Acre on Fire: The True Story of a Deadly Blaze, Junk Science, and a Journey for Justice by Dick Lehr (Jan. 19, $32,
ISBN 978-0-06-338328-9) discusses how the wrongful conviction and 30-year imprisonment of a Massachusetts man accused of arson was made possible by pseudoscientific ideas about fire damage.
Melville House
Notes from a Fascist Present by Mark Bray (Jan. 19, $20.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-68589-307-1) recaps how the author was pushed out of his professorship at Rutgers, terrorized online by the far-right, and forced to flee the country over his authorship of Antifa: The Antifascist Handbook.
Metropolitan
Lust: Pleasure, Performance, Power by Erika Lust (Oct. 13, $26.99, ISBN 978-1-250-40241-7). The adult filmmaker argues that ethical porn-making is possible, pointing to the innovations made at her studio, Lust Cinema, and asserts that blaming porn for social problems is scapegoating.
New Directions
Screeds by Elfriede Jelinek, trans. by Gitta Honegger (Nov. 3, $15.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-8112-4100-7), comprises two essays in which the Nobel Prize winner rails against Donald Trump’s first and second election victories and decries the corruption and apparent madness eating away at the modern political order.
New Press
A Burning House: My Politics by Harry Belafonte, with Kevin Baker (Oct. 13, $22.99, ISBN 979-8-89385-091-8), collects the late activist and performer’s reflections on the state of America politics before his death in 2023, including his thoughts on the country’s commitment to Israel.
The Opportunists: The Crisis of Liberalism and the Remaking of Reactionary Politics by Hannah Gurman (Oct. 20, $28.99, ISBN 979-8-89385-049-9) surveys the cadre of postliberal intellectuals, among them Patrick Deneen and Sohrab Ahmari, who have played a crucial role in legitimizing Trumpism beyond the MAGA base.
North Atlantic
Playing the Victim: How the Powerful Deny and Attack Survivors of Violence, from Domestic Abuse to Genocide by Kylie Cheung (Oct. 20, $21.95 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-88984-402-0) highlights similarities in the tactics, like gaslighting and playing the victim, used by both abusive intimate partners and states with colonial ambitions, particularly Israel.
Norton
Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era by Susan Neiman (Sept. 15, $27.99, ISBN 978-1-324-13104-5). The political philosopher
argues that a reluctance to name wrongdoing as “evil” is leading to the corrosion of democracy, and urges readers to reject moral gray zones as the price of politics.
Coding Kids: Big Tech’s Battle to Remake Public Schools by Natasha Singer (Sept. 8, $31.99, ISBN 978-0-393-88194-3) investigates the tech industry’s intrusion into American public education by way of sponsored computer science classes, such as those peddled by the Big Tech–backed nonprofit Code.org.
One Signal
Israel’s Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power by Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick (Aug. 11, $29, ISBN 978-1-6682-1084-0) details the network of think tanks and lobbyists that influence American politics on behalf of Israel, warning that it has become a dangerous case of the tail wagging the dog.
Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohammed Bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East by Matthew Cole (Oct. 6, $29, ISBN 978-1-6680-9532-4) reveals secretive financial dealings between the president’s son-in-law and the leader of the U.A.E. that have shaped recent geopolitical events in the Middle East.
One World
How to Look Away: On American Cruelty and the Refusal to Disappear by Daniel Peña (Oct. 6, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-59639-5). The novelist and critic delves into the American impulse toward cruelty, particularly as it is expressed in rituals of humiliation targeted at immigrants.
Other Press
Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life: Survival and Witness in Gaza by Samar Yazbek, trans. by Leri Price (Aug. 18, $17.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-63542-612-0), relays the harrowing experiences of survivors of the Israeli assault on Gaza.
Pantheon
Basic Pistol: Living and Dying by the Gun in America by Harel Shapira (Sept. 15, $35, ISBN 978-0-593-31719-8). The sociologist embeds himself in the world of U.S. firearms training programs and gun schools, shedding light on how they inculcate a
culture of violence and far-right extremism.
Penguin Press
Profiles in Cowardice: A Study of Collaboration in the Trump Era by Jacob Weisberg (Sept. 15, $31, ISBN 979-8-217-06259-1) catalogs powerful people and institutions that have so far failed to stand up to the president’s power grabs, from Jeff Bezos to Blackstone.
The Endless Tryout: Reclaiming Childhood from Relentless Competition by Jay Caspian Kang (Jan. 19, $30, ISBN 979-
8-217-06005-4) draws on the author’s experiences with his eight-year-old daughter to lambast the stress-inducing culture of college admissions–oriented optimization that increasingly dominates middle-class American childhood.
Random House
American Prophecy: One Family, Two Nations, and a World on Fire by Lauren Sandler (Jan. 26, $32, ISBN 978-0-593-59634-0) profiles five children of a prominent right-wing evangelical pastor who have left the faith as adults, with several becoming left-wing activists, even as they struggle to maintain a relationship with their father.
Ten Lives: How What We Have Shapes Who We Are by Mona Chalabi (Nov. 10, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-24367-1). The Pulitzer-winning data journalist documents and visualizes the finances of 10 Americans from disparate walks of life, aiming to find out if any amount of money is enough to insulate one from the country’s unique economic precarity.
Scribner
China Whisperers: The Voices That Have Shaped America’s Views of Its Chief Geopolitical Rival by Robert D. Kaplan (Nov. 10, $32, ISBN 978-1-6680-8701-5) surveys figures who have been instrumental in shaping American perceptions of China over the past century and considers what kind of policy experts dictate the U.S.’s China policy today.
St. Martin’s
Hillbilly Hypocrisy: JD Vance and the Dark Future of MAGA Politics by Nathan J. Robinson (Dec. 1, $29, ISBN 978-1-250-43854-6) studies the MAGA ecosystem surrounding JD Vance that is poised to take control after Trump, arguing that it is full of faux anti-elitists, among them Steve Bannon and Peter Thiel.
St. Martin’s Essentials
American Caesar: How Theocrats and Tech Lords Are Turning America into a Monarchy by Bradley B. Onishi (Sept. 15, $29, ISBN 978-1-250-42792-2) scrutinizes the odd pairing of right-wing forces—hardcore Christians and Silicon Valley libertarians—who are yearning for an autocratic takeover by an unbounded executive.
Verso
Making a Killing: How the West Profits from Slaughter in Gaza and Yemen by Andrew Feinstein, Ruth Rohde, and Jack Cinamon (Nov. 10, $34.95, ISBN 978-1-83674-084-1) investigates the Western arms trade that fuels war in the Middle East.
On Un/Certainty: The Uses of Doubt in Dangerous Times by Natasha Lennard (Oct. 13, $24.95, ISBN 978-1-80429-561-8) argues that a reflexive invocation of “uncertain times” masks the reality that such times are in fact defined by many violent certainties.
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