Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power
10 best books like Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power (Seth Rosenfeld): The Topeka School, The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World, Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe, From Ant to Eagle, The Vanishers, Empire State: A Love Story (or Not), Woman World, Yellow Face, Europe Between the Oceans: 9000 BC-AD 1000, Shibboleth: My Revolting Life
| Author | Ben Lerner |
| ISBN | 0374277788 |
From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station, a tender and expansive family drama set in the American Midwest at the turn of the century: a tale of adolescence, transgression, and the conditions that have given rise to the trolls and tyrants of the new right
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| Author | David W. Anthony |
| ISBN | 0691058873 |
Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Until now their identity has remained a tantalizing mystery...
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage
“Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner.”— New York...
My name is Calvin Sinclair, I'm eleven years old and I have a confession… ...I killed my brother.
It's the summer before grade six and Calvin Sinclair is bored to tears. He’s recently moved from a big city to a small town and there's nothing to do. It’s hot, he has no friends and the only kid...
| Author | Heidi Julavits |
| ISBN | 0385523815 |
Is the bond between mother and daughter unbreakable, even by death? Julia Severn is a student at an elite institute for psychics. Her mentor, the legendary Madame Ackermann, afflicted by jealousy, refuses to pass the torch to her young disciple. Instead, she subjects Julia to the humiliation of...
Empire State: A Love Story (or Not)
| Author | Jason Shiga |
| ISBN | 0810997479 |
Jimmy is a stereotypical geek who works at the library in Oakland, California, and is trapped in his own torpidity. Sara is his best friend, but she wants to get a life (translation: an apartment in Brooklyn and a publishing internship). When Sara moves to New York City, Jimmy is rattled. Then lonely....
| Author | Aminder Dhaliwal |
| ISBN | 1770463356 |
The hilarious and wildly popular instagram comic about a world with no men
With her startling humor, it’s no surprise that Aminder Dhaliwal’s web comic Woman World has a devoted audience of more than 150,000 readers, updated biweekly with each installment earning an average of 25,000...
| Author | David Henry Hwang |
| ISBN | 1559363401 |
"It's about our country, about public image, about "face,"" says David Henry Hwang about his latest work, a mock documentary that puts Hwang himself center stage as it explores both Asian identity as well as race in America. The play begins with the 1990s controversy over color-blind casting for "Miss...
| Author | Barry W. Cunliffe |
| ISBN | 0300119232 |
In this magnificent book, distinguished archaeologist Barry Cunliffe reframes our entire conception of early European history, from prehistory through the ancient world to the medieval Viking period. Cunliffe views Europe not in terms of states and shifting political land boundaries but as a...
Shibboleth: My Revolting Life
| Author | Penny Rimbaud |
| ISBN | 1873176406 |
The extraordinary autobiography of Jeremy John Ratter, a.k.a. Penny Rimbaud, founder, lyricist, and drummer of Crass, a band unique in the history of rock 'n' roll. Crass took the idealism of punk seriously. When Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten screamed "No Future" the challenge was taken. In the space of...
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
”Manson himself had a fondness for the same phrase: ‘I am the man in the mirror,’ he said. ‘Anything you see in me is in you, I am you, and when you can admit that you will be free.”
Who is Charles Manson?
This book began as a 5000 word piece for Premiere Magazine with the...
| Author | Meg-John Barker |
| ISBN | 1785780719 |
Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction graphic novel.
From identity politics and gender roles to privilege and exclusion, Queer explores how we came to view sex, gender...
1861: The Civil War Awakening
| Author | Adam Goodheart |
| ISBN | 1400040159 |
As the United States marks the 150th anniversary of our defining national drama, 1861 presents a gripping and original account of how the Civil War began.
1861 is an epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields. Early in that fateful year, a second American revolution unfolded, inspiring...
