“Monumental—and monumentally disturbing… One of Conis’s greatest achievements is to put a human face on this science of risk." —NEW REPUBLIC
“Shocking… captivating… timely.” —KIRKUS (*)
“What Merchants of Doubt did for earlier campaigns of corporate disinformation, How to Sell a Poison does, superbly." —ADAM HOCHSCHILD
Nancy Hiemstra & Deirdre Conlon, Immigration Detention Inc.: The Big Business of Locking up Migrants. Pluto Press, 6/20/2025
* NEW YORK TIMES Critics’ Top Books of 2021 *
“Superb history.” —NEW YORK TIMES
“Extraordinary… powerful.” —Ibram X. Kendi
Mia Bay, Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance, Belknap Press, 2021.
"Bold." —Jennifer Szalai, NEW YORK TIMES
"Fascinating and powerful... sweeping... reverses much of what Americans have learned to accept about the Constitution." —Jedediah Britton-Purdy, THE NATION
“Astonishing… No more important book about the Constitution has appeared in a hundred years—if ever.” —SAMUEL MOYN
“Indispensable.” —Esmat Elhalaby, THE BAFFLER
“Wind indicts the Israeli academy both for its own complicity and for its silence.” —JEWISH CURRENTS
"Remarkable... invaluable." —ROBIN D. G. KELLEY
“Rigorous and jaw-dropping... An explosive contribution from a brilliant young scholar.” –NAOMI KLEIN
“Expert, careful, and devastating… a story with profound and troubling implications for the future of journalism and unfettered thinking. Never pulling any punches but always hitting fairly, Higgins has written an important book.” —Jeet Heer, THE NATION
"Invaluable." —MALCOLM HARRIS
“Careful and powerful” —AMERICAN PROSPECT
“Vivid… offer[s] policymakers, labor organizers, and community activists insights.”—RUTH WILSON GILMORE
!["[A] provocative critique" — FOREIGN AFFAIRS](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1683666723175-XLXE05XXI1H8TUS5EW6A/81YlfzqhQ1L.jpeg)
"Compel[s] a reader to feel the era’s anguish and urgency... give[s] the activists’ trajectory a novel’s momentum… an important contribution to the annals of AIDS.” —NEW YORK TIMES
“Fascinating... thrilling... captivating.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (*)
“Totally compelling… Immediately read this book.” —MAGGIE NELSON
"The best modern workplace ethnography that I've ever read." —Robert I. Sutton
“Illuminating... brilliantly untangles the interwoven threads of colonialism, racism, and capitalism." —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (*)
“A brilliance we’ve seldom seen or imagined… a new standard in book-making.” —KIESE LAYMON
"I began this book as an anthropologist, but a few pages in, realized I was reading it as the little Black boy who acquired a chronic respiratory illness while growing up in Baltimore… I wish we had Ahmann's book back then… Written with empathy and backed by rigorous analysis, Futures after Progress is a revelation." —LAURENCE RALPH
“This underdog story is a delight.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
""[W]ide-ranging. . . . [D]efensiveness can, of course, be frustrating for researchers. What The Interloper demonstrates is that it can also offer a vital tool for uncovering the very things people most want to keep hidden."—Matthew Reisz, TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION
“Informed, thought-provoking.” — KIRKUS
Brian Lowery, Selfless: The Social Creation of “You.” Harper, 3/28/23.
“Wide-ranging and entertaining… Feltman is sassy and opinionated… despite much of her subject matter being deeply serious, she writes about it with humor.” —DAILY MAIL
“Playful, myth-busting… Enlivened by Feltman’s keen sense of humor and affirmational tone… entertaining and informative” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Rachel Feltman, Been There, Done That: A Rousing History of Sex. Bold Type Books, 5/17/2022.
“Devastating… It’s hard to read Insane without concluding that the way the criminal justice system has dealt with mental illness is profoundly broken.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Superb… Revealing.” —NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
Alisa Roth, Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness. Basic Books, 2018
"Impressive." —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"Dazzling" —SCIENCE
"Captivates... bracing and bold." —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (*)
“A grand tour of the world and the mind, led by one of the world’s leading experts on emotion and culture. The journey is a joy, full of puzzles, insights, and empathy” ― JONATHAN HAIDT
Batja Mesquita, Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions. W. W. Norton & Company, 7/19/2022.
"Essential, abolitionist work." —ELECTRIC LITERATURE
"Hugh Ryan is a master historian and storyteller." —LITERARY HUB
“Informative, empathetic... a vital contribution to LGBTQ history.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"Impeccable... Important." —SEATTLE TIMES
"A hard look at social injustices in ballet and how to end them… A vigorously reported critique." —KIRKUS
“Remarkable… an uplifting, exhilarating, fascinating journey.” –CHICAGO TRIBUNE
“Riveting… a nail-biter.” –WALL STREET JOURNAL
“Spellbinding.” —SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
“A book for these times as we confront the fault lines in our democracy… a deeply provocative work .” —Alex Kotlowitz, author of THERE ARE NO CHILDREN HERE
“Higgins cracks open this astonishingly dangerous sport and captures the spectacular adrenaline surges it delivers… [a] riveting tale.” —WALL STREET JOURNAL
Matt Higgins, Bird Dream: Adventures at the Extremes of Human Flight, Penguin Press, 2014.
“Essential.” —LIBRARY JOURNAL (*)
“Nothing short of brilliant.” –Jane McGonigal
"Informative... important.” —WALL STREET JOURNAL
“Essential, smart, and cogent." —Cory Doctorow
Cyrus Farivar, Habeas Data: Privacy Vs. the Rise of Surveillance Tech, Melville House, 2018.
“A rich, sprawling book.” —THE ATLANTIC
“Superb.” —Robert M. Sapolsky, WALL STREET JOURNAL
Joshua Greene, Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them, Penguin Press, 2013.
"Unique… savvy and humanistic." —Sherry Turkle, author of ALONE TOGETHER
"Marvelous." —Judy Wajcman
One of NEW YORK MAGAZINE’s “15 Books That Will Nurture Your Nerdier Side”
Benjamin Reiss, Wild Nights: How Taming Sleep Created Our Restless World, Basic Books, 2017.
A Best Book of 2014, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY: "Groundbreaking… persuasive and comprehensive."
Phil Zuckerman, Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions, Penguin Press, 2014.
