Combining elements of memoir, political theory, satire, and literary criticism, literary legend Ariel Dorfman’s latest book is an emotionally raw yet measured assessment of the United States after the election of Donald Trump. More

The Digital Critic brings together a diverse group of perspectives—early-adopters, Internet skeptics, bloggers, novelists, editors, and others—to address the future of literature and scholarship in a world of Facebook likes, Twitter wars, and Amazon book reviews. More

In What’s Yours Is Mine, Tom Slee argues that the new wave of companies known as the sharing economy, including tech giants Lyft, Airbnb, Taskrabbit, and Uber, is funded and steered by very old-school venture capitalists. Now updated and revised throughout, with a new foreword by the author. More

The authors of The Wellness Syndrome dive inside the burgeoning self-optimization movement, which seeks to transcend the limits placed on us by being merely human—whether the feebleness of our bodies or our mental incapacities. More

Iraqi Kurdistan-based journalist Cathy Otten here reports the calamity of the Yezidi women, enslaved after ISIS’s besiegement of Sinjar Mountain in 2014—and the continuing fallout from the disaster. More

The focus group has become an increasingly vital part of the way companies and politicians sell their products and policies. In a lively, sweeping history, Featherstone raises profound questions about democracy, desire and the innermost workings of consumer society. More

The follow-up to the bestselling Beautiful Trouble, Beautiful Rising showcases some of the most innovative tactics used in struggles against autocracy and austerity across the Global South. More

Marshall McLuhan was the visionary theorist best known for coining the phrase “the medium is the message.” Now, his media scholar son Eric has recovered all the “lost” tetrads that he and his father developed, and accompanies them here with accessible explanations of how they function. More

The first English-language anthology of Tibetan fiction, Old Demons, New Deities brings together the best writers from both Tibet and the diaspora, writing in Tibetan, English and Chinese. More

Eli Valley’s comic strips are intricate fever dreams employing noir, horror, slapstick and science fiction to expose the outlandish hypocrisies at play in the American/Israeli relationship. More

Swords in the Hands of Children is the true story of an intellectually adventurous gay man immersed in the macho, misogynistic and confrontational environment of the Weather Underground. More

How I Lost By Hillary Clinton is a riveting, unsparing picture of the disastrous campaign that delivered America to President Trump, and a stark warning of a mistake that must not be repeated. More

In this stunning and original book, Adam Bartos’ exquisite photographs of Marker’s studio, a workspace both extraordinarily cluttered and highly organized, appear alongside a moving reminiscence of his friend by the film theorist and practitioner Colin MacCabe. More

Boycott and divestment are essential tools for activists around the globe. This is the essential reader for today’s creative leaders and cultural practitioners, including original contributions by artists, scholars, activists, critics, curators and writers. More

Terry Heaton worked alongside televangelist Pat Robertson at The 700 Club and became its executive producer. This is the inside story of how, using deliberate and strategic social engineering, The 700 Club moved Christians steadily into the Republican Party—and moved the party itself to the right. More