In Watchlist, some of today’s most prominent and promising fiction writers from around the globe respond to, reflect on, and mine for inspiration the surveillance culture in which we live. More

Edited and with an introduction by Paper editor Kim Hastreiter, @heaven reproduces the extraordinary exchange that took place on the early online community The WELL in the months leading up to the death of a Stanford futurist named Tom Mandel. More

A true account of a heroin addict who sheltered a U.S. Navy sailor on the lam from a nearby Marine base. He found himself arrested and subsequently believed himself under intense government scrutiny — and the subject of bizarre experimentation. More

A memoir about growing up in a family of activists; a book about how parents can create lasting and meaningful bulwarks between their kids and the violence endemic in our culture. More

Glamour and books don’t often converge, but they did at Rizzoli, one of New York City’s greatest bookstores: a memoir by a writer (and Rizzoli manager) who lived the unchecked, wild life of a young gay man in pre-AIDS, post-Stonewall 1970s New York. More

In this paradigm-shifting new book, Norman G. Finkelstein examines Israel’s major assaults on Gaza since 2008 and reveals the attacks have been designed to sabotage the possibility of a compromise peace with the Palestinians, even on terms that are favorable to it. More

The stories in Tales of Two Cities mix fiction and reportage to convey the indignities and heartbreak, the callousness and solidarities, of living side-by-side with people who have a stupefyingly different income. More

Even if you think you don’t know him, you know him. Few in the Hollywood orbit have had greater influence; few have experienced more humiliating failure in their lifetime. Thanks in part to the biopic directed by Tim Burton, starring Johnny Depp and bearing his name, Ed Wood has become an icon of Americana. More

In this explosive new book, renowned Middle East commentator Patrick Cockburn sets out how, by exploiting the repeated missteps of the West, jihadist organizations have come to create a caliphate that stretches from the Sunni heartlands in the north and west of Iraq through a broad swath of northeast Syria. More

Julian Assange and the chairman of Google Eric Schmidt debate the political problems faced by society, and the technological solutions engendered by the global network—and outline radically opposing perspectives. More

Simon Critchley melds personal narratives of how David Bowie lit up a dull teenage life in England’s suburbs with philosophical forays into the way authenticity and identity are turned inside out in the artist’s work. More

Using his captivating illustrations and no more than a handful of words, Thomas decrypts some of the most intriguing books of our day for readers of The Rumpus: now seventy-five of his favorites are collected in one volume. More