MARTIN GRAHAM recommends a book that makes a critique of neoclassical economics and attempts to envision a sustainable global future

JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a history that excavates the enormous role played by agricultural workers in recent times

IAN SINCLAIR draws attention to the powerful role that literature plays in foreseeing the way humanity will deal with climate crisis

SCOTT ALSWORTH hears the call to burn down and rebuild the video game industry from the bottom up

JOHN GREEN recommends an entertaining, if harsh and instructive, study of bullying, discipline and power dynamics in schools and at work

CHRIS MOSS welcomes a radical history that brings marginalised stories and overlooked people and agencies to the centre

SARAH TROTT explores short fictional slices of life in the American midwest from a middle-aged and mostly female perspective

JESSICA WIDNER explores how the twin themes of violence and love run through the novels of South Korean Nobel prize-winner Han Kang

JOHN HAWKINS is moved by an oral history that examines five black families pushed into homelessness in the US

MARJORIE MAYO recommends a punchy demonstration of the the way class politics are being fragmented by the right

STEVE ANDREW welcomes a political interrogation of the contradiction between ecological awareness and a dietary crisis in today’s food consumption

HENRY BELL is moved by the account of scientists under seige in Leningrad who preferred to starve rather than sacrifice their life-saving work