Vladimir Sorokin’s satirical and grotesque vision of a futuristic Russia ruled by a neo-feudal regime, where the Oprichnina—a brutal secret police force—enforces the will of the autocratic Tsar. The ...

Václav Havel’s landmark essay dissects the mechanisms of totalitarian power and the potential for dissent within oppressive systems. Havel argues that everyday acts of resistance, such as living in ...

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This biography allows the reader to step into the mind of the nineteenth-century senator who saw in the Constitution, when ...

Margaret Atwood’s gripping account of theocratic tyranny and gender subjugation in the dystopian culture of Gilead. This science fiction classic is a gripping tale of survival in a world where women’s ...

The book puts the reader in the midst of the hard-scrabble world of the Texas ranch country in the 1950s during a drought, a time when the sky offered nothing and the government offered contracts that ...

Zuboff’s meticulously researched analysis reveals the hidden mechanisms of digital surveillance and algorithmic governance. This non-fiction tour de force is a wake-up call for anyone concerned about ...

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s classic is more than a book, more than a story, more than a novel—it is a poignant and thought-provoking study of pure, unadulterated goodness in a world completely unprepared to ...

Meet Sarah Wynn-Williams, Meta’s highest-ranking whistleblower. She joins Honestly to expose the power, greed, and secrets behind Facebook’s rise and leadership.

There are some stories that not only tell you something, but live inside you, in your chest, long after you finish reading them. Such a story is Susan Abulhawa’s *Mornings in Jenin*. It is not a ...

Most books about Palestine begin in 1948. Rashid Khalidi’s *The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine* begins earlier, with a letter written in 1899 to Theodor Herzl from his great-great-uncle, the mayor of ...

The book truly earns its subtitle, "A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism," in its unflinching look at the consequences of that greed. Wynn-Williams takes us inside meetings where ...