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The Burning Ground

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The Burning Ground

by Noo Saro-Wiwa
 

Noo Saro-Wiwa’s incisive and personal investigation the oil industry in her home country of Nigeria reveals a sordid tale of corruption in a region of the world struggling with contradiction.      learn more

April 2026

We Want to Believe

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We Want to Believe

by Adam Kirsch
 

Why do we still believe in UFOs, despite repeated efforts to dismiss them? Acclaimed literary critic Adam Kirsch draws on a wide literature of belief and skepticism to examine them not as fantasies but as a mystery closer to home: what it means for society when certainty fails and curiosity persists.      learn more

August 2026

Our Hearts Burned for Home

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Our Hearts Burned for Home

Emily Feng
 

What drove a few thousand men and women from the deserts and cities of western China to the front lines of Syria’s war? Journalist Emily Feng unearths the untold story of Uyghur exiles who fled China’s expanding police state—only to become a pivotal force behind the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime.      learn more

October 2026

Remaking the State

Remaking the State

K. Sabeel Rahman
 

Legal scholar K. Sabeel Rahman offers a bold new blueprint for a new administrative state rooted not in expertise alone, but in purpose. Urgent and clarifying, this is a bracing case for remaking the state before democracy is remade against us.      learn more

November 2026

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