Current Affairs

The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World
Paperback
An urgent and incisive new framework for understanding the origins–and stakes–of global conflict with China, Russia and Iran

Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in U.S. History
Hardback
Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize 2026
Epic and groundbreaking, Stealing America boldly rewrites American history by putting Native enslavement and rampant land theft at the epicentre of America’s past

These Truths: A History of the United States
Paperback
In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation, an urgently needed reckoning with the beauty and tragedy of American history

Churn: The Tension That Divides Us and How to Overcome It
Hardback
With Malcolm Gladwell-like clarity, Churn captures the most commonplace tensions of life in a multi-faceted democracy and how to minimise their corrosive effects in everyday life

University: A Reckoning
Hardback
An account of the American university in the age of authoritarianism and a new case for its place in the American system


