Non-fiction

Lee Kuan Yew once described the opportunity to remake Singapore as 'a chance of a lifetime'. This book explores Lee's pivotal role in Singapore's u...

Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these ...

Conspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new--conspiracy without theory. And the new conspirac...

'Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, the command to love one's enemy is an absolute necessity for our survival' Advocating lo...

Afropean is an on-the-ground documentary of areas where Europeans of African descent are juggling their multiple allegiances and forging new identi...

Against Everything is a thought-provoking study and essential guide to the vicissitudes of everyday life under twenty-first-century capitalism. Mar...

One hundred and fifty Americans are killed each day by the opioid epidemic, described by a former head of the Food and Drug Administration as 'one ...

In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for 9Ù an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An award-winning ...

The crucial 'difference', of course, was slavery. Here he examines its roots in the colonial era, early racial attitudes, the new Revolutionary com...

This is the third volume of the Reinventing Social Emancipation: Towards New Manifestos series. Another Knowledge Is Possible explores the struggle...

In Artificial Unintelligence, Meredith Broussard argues that our collective enthusiasm for applying computer technology to every aspect of life has...

Drawing from the fields of ethnographic and sociological studies, cultural activism, public health and film studies, this volume poses new and exci...

One thing we know for certain is that sex is personal: perhaps the most intimate thing of all. But sex is also shaped by a complicated web of cultu...

From one of the world's leading experts on unconscious racial bias come stories, science, and strategies to address one of the central controversie...

Bill Bryson goes to Kenya at the invitation of CARE International, the charity dedicated to working with local communities to eradicate poverty aro...

It is human instinct to sort and categorize. According to Professor Kevin Dutton, a psychologist at the University of Oxford, we are hardwired to d...

An infinite geography of possible futures What does it mean to be Black and alive right now? Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham have brought together ...

In these twelve deeply personal, connected essays, Bernard details the experience of growing up black in the south with a family name inherited fro...

In the autumn of 1959, a white Texan journalist named John Howard Griffin travelled across the Deep South of the United States disguised as a worki...

An art expert sees a ten-million-dollar sculpture and instantly spots it's a fake. A marriage analyst knows within minutes whether a couple will st...

Writer and critic Eric Thurm digs deep into his own experience as a board game enthusiast to explore the emotional and social rules that games crea...

With two recessions and a botched pandemic under their belt, the Boomers are their children’s favorite punching bag. But is the hatred justified? I...

The civil rights movement was one of the most searing developments in modern American history. It abounded with noble visions, resounded with magni...

Why is it important to imbibe a thinking culture? What can contemporary Malays contribute by way of an active intellectual and social life towards ...

In Building and Dwelling, Richard Sennett distils a lifetime's thinking and practical experience to explore the relationship between the good built...

Beginning with the election of Donald Trump ("The Loneliest Man in the World") and expanding back and forth into American history, surveillance, vi...

In Lucas Mann's trademark vein--fiercely intelligent, self-deprecating, brilliantly observed, idiosyncratic, personal, funny, and infuriating--Capt...

Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. In Caste, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson g...

Six thousand years ago, there were no cities on the planet. Today, more than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas, and that number i...

Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Self-driving cars roaming the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world cons...

What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize­­–finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely j...

Dense living conditions in Hong Kong do not provide much privacy for lesbians and other sexual minorities living with their families. As a result, ...

Translated by Laurent Dubois In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness-fr...

Considered by many to be the most innovative British Marxist writer of the twentieth century, Christopher Caudwell was killed in the Spanish Civil ...

Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biolo...

Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones For hundreds of years, Bulgarian Gypsies trained bears to dance, welcoming them into their families and taking th...

Bitcoin may appear to be a revolutionary form of digital cash without precedent or prehistory. In fact, it is only the best-known recent experiment...

Even with the current rise in awareness of sexual and intimate diversity, monogamous relationships remain the cultural norm. Most people aspire to ...

What we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending, we are treated more as consumers than workers,...

Nutritionists tell you to eat more fish. Environmentalists tell you to eat less fish. Apparently they are both right. It's the same thing with almo...

Lynsey Hanley was born and raised just outside of Birmingham on what was then the largest council estate in Europe, and she has lived for years on ...

During the twentieth century, America managed to make its economic and social systems both more and more fair and more and more prosperous. A huge,...

What extremism is, how extremist ideologies are constructed, and why extremism can escalate into violence. A rising tide of extremist movements thr...

What should I wear? It’s one of the fundamental questions we ask ourselves every day. More than ever, we are told it should be something new. Today...

How food pantries stigmatize their clients through a discourse that emphasizes hard work, self help, and economic productivity rather than food jus...

Shannon Watts was a stay-at-home mom folding laundry when news of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary flashed across the television screen...

Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figure...

New York is a city of highs and lows, where wealthy elites share the streets with desperate immigrants and destitute locals. Bridging this economic...