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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's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Doug Bradley Why Doug loves this book

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

By Omar El Akkad ,

Why should I read it?

7 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.

What is this book about?

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,…


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December on 5C4 by Adam Strassberg,

Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!

On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…

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Pádraig Carmody Author Of The New Cold War in Africa

From my list on global transformations.

Why am I passionate about this?

I'm a  Professor in Geography at Trinity College Dublin and a Senior Research Associate in the School of Tourism and Hospitality at the University of Johannesburg. My research and teaching focus on the political economy of globalisation in Africa, and I'm interested in the ways in which current, massive global changes are impacting Africa and the prospects for its development based on constructed or available policy space. Sometimes there seems to be so much change in the world that it is hard to pick out what the most important trends are and their inter-relationships. I picked this book list based on what I see as some of the biggest changes in the world right now. 

Pádraig's book list on global transformations

Pádraig Carmody Why Pádraig loves this book

I loved this book because it explains how to understand our current politics, particularly in the United States and Europe.

Far-right parties have gained ground globally and have often come to power. Sometimes the political changes and events happen so quickly that they are bewildering, but there is a logic to them that has roots back to the rise of the ideology of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.

The book traces this lineage and shows how the rise of the populist right reflects a fracture within this global movement, which now brings together libertarians, market liberals, racists, and nationalists in a new fusion. It reads easily and compellingly and helped me make sense of the current moment. 

By Quinn Slobodian ,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

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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