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Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant
5 stars
The true story of what happened the first time machines came for human jobs, when an underground network of 19th …
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Middle-aged, jaded and divorced, TV scriptwriter Harada returns one night to the dilapidated downtown district of Tokyo where he grew …
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Command and Control by Eric Schlosser
4 stars
From investigative journalist Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, comes an account of the management of nuclear weapons. Through …
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4 stars
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.
Peter is …
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Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
4 stars
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (French: Surveiller et punir : Naissance de la prison) is a 1975 …
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A Creature Wanting Form by Luke O'Neil
A Creature Wanting Form is a bleakly funny work of fiction from a journalist widely celebrated for his wry, mordant …
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Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything by Colette Shade
THE EARLY 2000s conjures images of inflatable furniture, flip phones, and low-rise jeans. It was a new millennium and the …
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The Achilles Trap by Steve Coll
When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, its message was clear: Iraq, under the control of strongman Saddam Hussein, …