| 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed by Eric KlinenbergSociologist and bestselling author Eric Klinenberg's (Palaces for the People) sobering study offers a compelling look at the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic through the experiences of seven New Yorkers. Try this next: The Plague Year: America in the Time of COVID by Lawrence Wright. |
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| A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging by Lauren MarkhamJournalist Lauren Markham's "remarkable, unnerving, and cautionary portrait of a global immigration crisis" (Kirkus Reviews) chronicles the aftermath of the 2020 burning of a large refugee camp in Greece, in which young Afghan migrants were falsely accused of arson. Try this next: The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You by Dina Nayeri. |
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| Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America by Barbara McQuadeMSNBC legal analyst Barbara McQuade's accessible debut explores how disinformation campaigns perpetuated by the Trump administration continue to play a detrimental role in undermining American democracy. Further reading: Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things by Dan Ariely. |
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| A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime by Casey ShermanJournalist and screenwriter Casey Sherman revisits the 1958 murder of mobster Johnny Stompanato by Cheryl Crane, the 14-year-old daughter of his girlfriend, actress Lana Turner, in this dramatic true crime account. For fans of: Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood by William J. Mann. |
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Politics : A Survivor's Guide: How to Stay Engaged Without Getting Enraged
by Rafael Behr
We live in an age of fury and confusion. A new crisis erupts before the last one has finished: financial crisis, Brexit, pandemic, war in Ukraine, inflation, strikes. Prime Ministers come and go but politics stays divided and toxic. It is tempting to switch off the news, tune out and hope things will get back to normal. Except, this is the new normal, and our democracy can only work if enough people stay engaged without getting enraged. But how? To answer that question, award-winning journalist Rafael Behr takes the reader on a personal journey from despair at the state of politics to hope that there is a better way of doing things, with insights drawn from three decades as a political commentator and foreign correspondent.
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