"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 ...

**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.

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 man used to make shows. A lot of shows. Shows for himself to do. He made them with his friend. The man used to call the shows ghost stories because they were often about dead people. The man’s friend didn’t believe in ghosts, but he knew that lots of people did. He knew the man did. The friend didn’t really care what the man talked about as long as the man was telling the truth. Anyway, the man’s friend died. And so here we are.A comedy about grief, rage, disappointment, and emba...

Giving his characters life in a whirlwind of words, Daniel MacIvor showcases his talents as a writer and performer in two of his most celebrated solo shows. Published here for the first time in their newly revised scripts, House and Here Lies Henry seethe with anger and soothe with comedy.In House, Victor drags his audience through his life, his fantasies, his desires, and his recent push to the edge. Here Lies Henry is a story about a man alone on a roo...

Co-founder of Toronto’s groundbreaking theatre company da da kamera, Daniel MacIvor is Canada’s most influential post-modern playwright.In his latest collaboration with director Daniel Brooks, MacIvor plays the role of Leonard, who narrates the events leading up to his murder while trying to understand them himself. Through the course of the play, we peer behind the curtains of his neighbourhood as MacIvor transforms into the multiple characters who bear witness to Leonard’s life a...

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...

Peter is putting on a show. He’s a bit stressed. In the show, he will read from a manuscript. It’s a large manuscript, but don’t worry, he’s only going to read the parts about him, and there aren’t many. It’s a memoir written by someone who abandoned him twice—once as a baby and once when he was a young man of thirteen. This person has figured prominently in Peter’s life for over fifty years now, but judging by the memoir, he has not figured so much in theirs. So perhaps it’s going to be a...

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...

The Pull of the Earth is Laurie Thorp's dirt-under-the-fingernails ethnography of four years in an elementary school garden and the ways in which this garden catalyzed cultural transformation and inspired hope, growth, and community. Filled with photographs, sketches, poetry, and journal entries, Thorp's engaging book describes the educational benefits of learning through the environment: lessons on nutrition, the rhythms and cycles found in nature, and the stability found in entering a re...

Experience the powerful and heartbreaking story of A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. Set during World War I, this timeless novel follows the journey of an American ambulance driver, Frederic Henry, who falls deeply in love with a British nurse, Catherine Barkley, amidst the chaos of war. As the conflict intensifies, their romance becomes a fragile escape from the brutality surrounding them. Hemingway masterfully explores themes of love, loss, and the harsh realities of war, deliverin...