**A New Yorker Best Book of 2025An illuminating portrait of a lost thinker, German-Jewish sexologist and activist Magnus Hirschfeld.**More than a century ago, Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, dubbed the “Einstein of Sex,” grew famous (and infamous) for his liberating theory of sexual relativity. Today, he’s been largely forgotten.Journalist Daniel Brook retraces Hirschfeld’s rollicking life and reinvigorates his legacy, recovering one of the great visionaries of the ...

A man is at a silent meditation retreat where participants are not supposed to speak or communicate in any other way with each other for ten days. His recent terminal cancer diagnosis has made him acutely aware of the need for community and human interaction, but his thoughts are his only company. In this poignant and surprisingly funny solo play, Brooks invites us to bear witness as he explores the anxieties and joys of loving and living, and the inevitability of dying.

She's the daughter of a serial killer… They're FBI agents…No one knows Freya is actually the daughter of the Cross-Cut Killer, America's most notorious serial killer. Living under a false identity as a detective is isolating but at least Freya's safe. That is until she falls onto the radar of Special Agent River Park and his team.River, Oz, Elijah, and Jude have been chasing the Cross-Cut Killer for years. They're the best the FBI has to offer, not to menti...

I've existed only in the shadows.My only connections were forged through the veil of a computer screen. I was their voice in the dark, their operator. I was their lifeline—until the day my past tore into my present, and they had to become mine.Captured, subjected to torture and relentless interrogation, I survived long enough for them to find me. I harbor no delusions; fleeing and disappearing again is not an option.The only way to win is to fight. ...

"Patch online…"Five years ago, I disappeared from the life I had and built this one. I spend my days and most of my nights on the line, helping my clients achieve their goals. They call me when they are in a jam or are getting ready to move on a target.I'm their information specialist. The woman in the chair. I'm their switchboard.Intelligence, electronic eyes, computer hacking—I do it all. My singular goal is to bring my clients home safely. Some c...

A pioneering exploration of four cities where East meets West and past becomes future: St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Dubai.Every month, five million people move from the past to the future. Pouring into developing-world “instant cities” like Dubai and Shenzhen, these urban newcomers confront a modern world cobbled together from fragments of a West they have never seen. Do these fantastical boomtowns, where blueprints spring to life overnight on virgin land, represent the da...

Emma Carlisle thought she was just an ordinary young woman living in Ashford—until the night she vanished. Found bruised and terrified, she should have been safe. But someone—or something—has marked her, and the shadows of the city are closing in. As mysterious messages arrive and a hooded figure stalks her every step, Emma turns to Detective Ian Holt, a man with secrets of his own, to uncover the truth. Each clue plunges her deeper into Ashford's hidden darkness, revealing disappearances ...

A technicolor history of the first civil rights movement and its collapse into black and white.Brutal slavery existed all over the New World, but only America followed emancipation with a twisted system of segregation. The Accident of Color asks why. Searching for answers, Daniel Brook journeys to the places that resisted Jim Crow the longest. In the cosmopolitan port cities of New Orleans and Charleston, integrated streetcars plied avenues patrolled by in...

Being the sole survivor of the Van Helsing family was never a burden I wanted to carry.Yet here I am, an orphan with a score to settle against Dracula for orchestrating the near genocide of my bloodline. One small kink in that plan: I was turned into the blood-sucking creature I was born to destroy.Being admitted into the Dark Imaginarium Academy to hone my new skills as a vampire and to survive the blood lust is the first step towards achieving my revenge....

"Takes dead aim at the conservative economic consensus that has dominated U.S. politics . . . Biting and necessary."— The American ProspectIn this provocative, witty, and revealing polemic, Daniel Brook's The Trap argues that the exploding income gap—a product of the conservative ascendance—is systematically dismantling the American dream, as debt-laden, well-educated young people are torn between their passions and the pressure to earn six-figure ...

They are pro-sports' Most Valuable Pack.One spoiled quarterback, a dominant billionaire, an all-pro tight end, and the best sports medicine doctor around. Together, they should make a perfect team. But the Ash pack is fumbling… until a sweet, sassy omega wanders into their biggest season ever and steals their hearts.If life is a game, Meg is definitely not winning.A single omega without any family or alphas, she's always been determined to make her ...

She's not just the daughter of a serial killer; She's the profiler hunting him down.Two months ago, Freya had a tracking anklet and four infuriatingly attractive FBI handlers. Now, she has her own badge and is pretty sure she's in love with all four of her former handlers.Settled in Quantico, Freya finally feels like she belongs. River no longer sees her as a criminal. Jude and Oz have her back in a way no one ever has before. And Eli… well, Eli's still com...