A National Book Award winner's personal journey through the ethical dilemmas and unsettling choices raised by the new frontier of DNA testing.Several years after Masha Gessen's mother died of breast cancer, she discovered she too had the BRCA1 gene mutation, which predisposes women to high rates of ovarian and breast cancer. Her doctors gave her narrow options: surgical removal of her breasts and ovaries or living with the likelihood of one day developing cancer. A...

AN ALL-OUT FANTASY SEXTRAVAGANZA! In a world where an endless variety of humanoid species coexist, there’s an equally endless variety of sexy shops sure to satisfy your every carnal desire! But say you’re spoiled for choice or you have a place in mind but you’re not sure if it’ll live up to the hype. That’s where the Interspecies Reviewers come in! These brave souls will dive crotch-first into the unknown and write a review that tells it true. From time-traveling temptresses to poison-brea...

**WINNER OF THE 2026 PULITZER PRIZE FOR OPINION WRITINGThe National Book Award winner's biography of a ruthless man's ascent to near-absolute power.**“In a country where journalists critical of the government have a way of meeting untimely deaths, Gessen has shown remarkable courage in researching and writing this unflinching indictment of the most powerful man in Russia.” —The Wall Street Journal“Thanks to fearless reporting and ac...

In a world where an endless variety of humanoid species coexist, there’s an equally endless variety of sexy shops for all your nightlife needs! Join Stunk, Zel, and Crim on their erotic adventures as they sample the many deviant delights that the world of succubus joints has to offer!

Reinette should be looking for a job. Instead, she signs up for photography camp. Being out in the wilds, learning something new, meeting people...maybe this is what she’s been yearning for.Deep in the forest, a derelict house waits to be discovered. The strange creatures who live there are trapped, longing for change, yet fearing it too. Reinette will need all her courage and kindness to help the magical friends she’s about to make.Ray and the Cat Thing is a cozy-creepy fa...

The Grand Mage Demia has opened a new succubus joint, and rumor has it the place will make you feel like it's your first time all over again. New succubus places offering more and more unique experiences pop up without end, and the intrepid Reviewers are ready to try them all out! Could Demia be one step closer to achieving her ambitions?

A staggering 90 percent of the American workforce struggles with burnout. reKindle shows them how to bounce back and reclaim their lives.Going beyond the immediate stressors, reKindle underscores burnout as a culmination of layered stresses, gradually leading individuals to a breaking point. Authored by a former entrepreneur, a lifelong healthcare worker, and a bridge engineer, each intimately familiar with burnout’s toll, this valuable resource i...

**WINNER OF THE 2026 PULITZER PRIZE FOR OPINION WRITING“When Gessen speaks about autocracy, you listen.” —The New York Times**“A reckoning with what has been lost in the past few years and a map forward with our beliefs intact.” —InterviewAs seen on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and heard on NPR’s All Things Considered: the bestselling, National Book Award–winning journalist offers an essential guide to understandin...

The acclaimed classic documentary novel depicting the Nazi occupation of Kyiv and one of the largest mass executions of the Holocaust."[A] masterpiece . . . every bit the peer of the canonical works of witness [such as] Anne Frank's diary [and] Wiesel's Night." —George Packer, The AtlanticAt the age of fourteen, Anatoly Kuznetsov began keeping a diary of life in Ukraine under Nazi occupation. Years later, he combined those ...

Teenagers Io and Maksim aren’t hackers. They’re just really good at avoiding the draconian security protocols of their home, the spaceship Tohorā. To them, the rules are just the paranoia of an older generation. They’re too young to remember the AI War, when the ship-system went rogue.Now, centuries of travel from Earth, the Tohorā’s life-support systems are failing, and they’re running out of food and air. Io and Maksim’s only escape from this grim situation is a secret v...

Did you know that even though people have been living and feeling for thousands of years, they only started labelling and categorizing emotions less than 200 years ago? Moreover, not all cultures use the same labels and categories and there is a wide range of emotions for which we have no name. No wonder it is difficult for us to express how we feel, not just to others, but also to ourselves. Because a large chunk of our communication is done through words, if there are no words to describ...

**WINNER OF THE 2026 PULITZER PRIZE FOR OPINION WRITINGWINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTIONWINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD**The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy.Award-winning journalist Masha Gessen's understanding of the events and forces t...