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Nigeria's political and religious elite trade in body parts stolen from a hospital, a business one surgeon uncovers. Soyinka returned to the novel after nearly fifty years to write this unforgiving satire.
Clerks in an Ottoman ministry collect the dreams of every subject and sift them for the one that foretells the empire's fate. Albania's dictatorship banned it within months, after twenty thousand copies sold.
Canetti anatomizes the crowd as a natural force, then locates power in the survivor who stands alive among the dead. Every command, he argues, leaves a sting in whoever obeys it.
Tradition stopped telling anyone what authority or freedom means, and Arendt refuses to invent a substitute. She reopens each concept instead, arguing that education fails when adults stop taking responsibility for the world.
Three sets of men run America, the sociologist Mills argued: corporate chiefs, politicians, and generals drawn from the same schools and clubs. The New Left took its name and its target from him.