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Activism & Awareness: A Reading List For The Holidays

It’s been a tough year, and many of us are trying to figure out where to go next. But education is essential before we take informed action, so do a deep dive into some of the issues we face in America with these books.

Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship by Anjan Sundaram

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson

Jackson, 1964, And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America by Calvin Trillin

Blood and Earth: Modern Slavery, Ecocide, and the Secret to Saving the World by Kevin Bales

Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution by Janette Sadik-Khan and Seth Solomonow

Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.

The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse by Mohamed A. El-Erian

Lois Lowry’s foreword to our new Deluxe Edition of Lord of the Flies (out 11/15) is excerpted in this week’s issue of The New York Times Book Review. In the foreword, which is also available online, the beloved author of The Giver discusses how the harsh themes of bullying and savagery in Golding’s classic deeply affected her as a young girl, and still resonate with her just as strongly sixty years later.

Kate Winslet Strikes a Pose in The Dressmaker

Author Rosalie Ham’s bestselling book makes the jump to silver screen in this highly-anticipated Amazon Original Movie.

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”—Oscar Wilde