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Doug Bradley Author Of The Tracks of My Years

From Doug's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Doug Bradley Why Doug loves this book

Powerful, poignant, and raw. Painful too. Writing is exceptional; the world is overwhelming.

By Omar El Akkad ,

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6 authors picked One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 PALESTINE BOOK AWARDS • From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values.

"[A] bracing memoir and manifesto." —The New York Times

"I can't think of a more important piece of writing to read right now. I found hope here, and help, to face what the world is now, all that it isn't anymore. Please read this. I promise you won't regret it." —Tommy Orange, bestselling author…


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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

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Elliot Dolan-Evans Author Of Making War Safe for Capitalism

From Elliot's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Slobodian's latest book, which charts the connection between neoliberalism and far-right politics, is a crucial read for today. The book works to displace the erroneous thought that far-right politics sweeping the globe is a challenge to the neoliberal world order; rather, it has grown from neoliberal doctrine and works to uphold these power structures, in a more violent, exclusionary way

By Quinn Slobodian ,

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1 author picked Hayek's Bastards as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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A revelatory exploration of how today's right-wing authoritarianism emerged not in opposition to neoliberalism, but from within it

Bracingly original... Hayek's Bastards demonstrates how a history of ideas can be riveting. Slobodian grounds intellectual abstractions in the lives of the people who espoused them... His book offers an illuminating history to our current bewildering moment, as right-wing populists join forces with billionaire oligarchs to take a chain saw to the foundations of public life, until there's nothing left to stand on' - Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times

After the end of the Cold War, neoliberalism, with its belief in…


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