Read The Fire Next Time

Jane Jacobs against the planners; eyes on the street and short blocks.

Ta-Nehisi Coates writes to his son about being Black in America; a letter in the tradition of Baldwin.

Five hundred pounds a year and a room with a lock; Woolf's essay on women and writing.

Pessoa's assistant bookkeeper Bernardo Soares and his fragments; the anti-novel of Lisbon.

John Berger on how oil painting and advertising teach us to look; the BBC series as a book.

Experience the dystopian classic by George Orwell

The pigs take over the farm; all animals are equal, but some more than others.

Solzhenitsyn's literary investigation of the camps from 227 witnesses; the abridged edition is enough.