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Means of Control

By Byron Tau

Business

You are being surveilled right now. This “startling exposé” (The Economist) by a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist reveals how the U.S. government allied with data brokers, tech companies, and advertisers to monitor us through the phones we carry and the devices…

Material World

By Ed Conway

History

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and greed for thousands…

Matrescence

By Lucy Jones

Nonfiction

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION • From the acclaimed author of Losing Eden (“Powerful, beautifully written”—Anthony Doerr) an important, moving, passionate and passionately written inquiry—personal and scientific—into what happens—mentally, spiritually, physically, during the process of becoming a mother,…

Mary Magdalene

By Adriana Valerio

Religion & Spirituality

"Brilliant . . . Essential reading for anyone who cares about Church history and gender equality. . . . speaks to our times with impressive relevance." — Reading in Translation From one of Italy's most renowned historians of religion, an…

Master Slave Husband Wife

By Ilyon Woo

Biographies and Memoirs

In December 1848, a young enslaved couple named Ellen and William Craft traveled openly by rail, coach and steamship from Macon, Georgia, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ellen, who passed for white, disguised herself as a wealthy disabled man, with William as…