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One of the most interesting sociologists of his generation" and a former cop, Gross followed three departments as they overcame the greatest barrier to change in law enforcement: aggressive police culture.What should we do about the police? After the murder of George Floyd, there's no more controversial institution: only a mere 14 percent of Americans believe that "policing works pretty well as it is." We are swimming in proposals for reform, ...

Placing famed almanac writer Benjamin Banneker at the forefront, Benjamin Banneker and Us weaves together past and present to explore the insidious forces of racism that shape our understanding of ancestry, lineage, and family today.Lyrically written, Rachel Webster's Benjamin Banneker and Us examines her own ancestry and relation to Benjamin Banneker, the African American mathematician and writer of almanacs who surveyed Washington, DC, for f...

In a revelatory dispatch from the frontier of capitalist extremism, an acclaimed historian of ideas shows how free marketeers are realizing their ultimate goal: an end to nation-states and the constraints of democracy.Look at a map of the world and you'll see a colorful checkerboard of nation-states. But this is not where power actually resides. Over the last decade, globalization has shattered the map into different legal spaces: free ports, ...

An incisive, deeply resonant debut novel about a nonconsensual sexual encounter that propels one woman's final semester at an elite New England college into controversy and chaos-and into an ill-advised affair with a married professorIt's 1998 and Isabel Rosen, the only daughter of a Lower East Side appetizing store owner, has one semester left at Wilder College, a prestigious school in New Hampshire. Desperate to shed her working-class roots ...

For readers of Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen comes a twisty psychological debut about marriage, motherhood, and the search for truth at all costsLiz Bennet is fortunate with love and she knows it. She's married to a wealthy, handsome, bright, all-around charming man. Arno, a wonderful husband and adoring father to their daughter, Emma, is the outward picture of perfection. But, when Liz sees a text on Arno's phone with a couple of kissy f...

Operating Instructions meets Glennon Doyle in this new book by famed NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly that is destined to become a classic-about act three of life when your children leave the nest, your parents are older and you are as well, and you recognize that time is not infinite, so use it wisely. The time for do-overs is over.Ever since she became a parent, Mary Louise Kelly has said "next year." Next year will be the year she makes it to...

A dazzling Turkish Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New York, exploring displacement, endurance, and family as homeA kaleidoscopic portrait of one family's displacement across four countries, Kantika-"song" in Ladino-follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Baruch, feisty daughter of the Sephardic elite of Constantinople. When the Baruchs lose their wealth and are forced to move to Barcelona and...

A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, expanding into a sweeping meditation on love, ancestry, and the power of storytellingThere are the goodbyes and then the fishing out of the bodies-everything in between is speculation. After the last American troops leave Vietnam, siblings Anh, Thanh, and Minh begin a perilous journey to Hong Kong with the promise that their parents and younger s...

A news-making account of the war between David Koresh's Branch Davidians and the FBI, and how their standoff launched today's militiasIn 1993, David Koresh and a band of heavily armed evangelical Christians took on the might of the US government. A two-month siege of their compound in Waco, Texas, ended in a firefight that killed seventy-six, including twenty-five children. America is still picking up the pieces, and we still haven't heard the...

Award-winning author and original thinker Emily Raboteau uses the lens of motherhood to craft a stunning mediation on race, climate change, and social justice what it means to live now in Lessons for Survival...

For fans of Bridgerton, a lush and immersive tale of adventure, artistry, romance, and freedom set in eighteenth-century London and inspired by a true story"I had little right to live, born on a slave ship where my parents both died. But I survived, and indeed, you might say I did more." It's 1746 and Georgian London is not a safe place for a young Black man, especially one who has escaped slavery. After the twinkling lights in the Fleet Stree...

In the vein of Eloquent Rage and Minor Feelings-a passionate, no-holds-barred memoir about the Asian American experience in a nation defined by racial stratificationWhen Julia Lee was fifteen, her hometown went up in smoke over a series of days that became the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The daughter of Korean immigrant store owners in a predominantly Black neighborhood, Julia was taught to be grateful for the privilege afforded to her. She attend...

An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day getaway with her partner and two other queer couplesSasha and Jesse are professionally creative, erotically adventurous, and passionately dysfunctional twentysomethings making a life together in Brooklyn. When a pair of older, richer lesbians-prominent news host Jules Todd and her psychotherapist partner, Miranda-invites Sasha and Jesse to their...

The first comprehensive, fully up-to-date biography of Vladimir Putin, woven into the tumultuous saga of Russia over the last sixty years Vladimir Putin is the world's most dangerous man. Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a nuclear firestorm and has threatened to do so. He invades his neighbors, most recently Ukraine, meddles in western elections, and orders assassinations inside and...

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A riveting investigation into the turbulent life of Zappos visionary Tony Hsieh, whose radical business strategies revolutionized both the tech world and corporate culture, based on rigorous research and reporting by two seasoned journalistsTony Hsieh's first successful venture was in middle school, selling personalized buttons. At Harvard, he made a profit compiling and selling study guides. In 1998, Hsieh sold his first company to Microsoft ...

A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love-self, brotherly, romantic, familial, cultural-is birthed, shaped, and complicated by the invisible forces of gender, capitalism, religion, and so on. But even though the path to love is not easy, it is a path worth treading.Love-or its absence-is at the heart of everything we do, and yet it is often mishandled and misrepresented. In the words of José Olivarez: "How many bad...

Susan Cain meets Mark Manson in New York Times bestselling author Dan Lyons's STFU-a desperately needed wake-up call for a world that demands we keep tweeting, posting, and podcasting that proves the most important thing might be to shut the f*ck up!Please don't take this the wrong way, but Dan Lyons is here to tell you that you really need to shut the f*ck up.What do Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Jeff Bezos, and Anna Wintour all have in common...

A one-of-a-kind look at the business of hip-hop, showing just how today's most successful musical genre has come to influence and dominate the fields of art, commerce, and culture the world over.Today hip-hop is the most successful musical genre, and its biggest stars have become household names the world over. But their influence and prominence isn't confined to radio's Top 40. Jay-Z is a billionaire with multiple companies and business ventu...

An instant New York Times bestseller.Critics agree: Michael Wolff's Landslide is THE book on Trump."Landslide . . . is the one to leap upon. Smart, vivid and intrepid . . ." -The New York Times"I inhaled Landslide, gobbled it up." -SlateWe all witnessed some of the most shocking and confounding political events of our lifetime: the careening last stage of Donald J. Trump's reelection campaign, the president's audacious election challenge, the ...