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Cory Doctorow: Radicalized (EBook, 2019, Head of Zeus)

Told through one of the most on-pulse genre voices of our generation--New York Times bestselling …

I've blazed through the first story "Unauthorized Bread." It truly feels like peak Doctorow, playing on all of his strengths in a compressed format that doesn't make room for some of his weaknesses. Really really enjoying it so far.

Jason Hickel: Less Is More (2021, Penguin Random House)

The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now …

A really strongly argued expression of the need to abandon GDP. Similar in nature to “Slow Down” by Kohei Saito but with a less academic framing (making it more approachable to people who aren’t Marxist scholars).