This Side of Paradise

F.Scott Fitzgerald

Amory Blaine, intent on rebelling against his staid, Midwestern upbringing, longs to acquire the patina of Eastern sophistication. In his quest for sexual and intellectual enlightenment, he progresses through a series of relationships, until he is cast out into the real world....

The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

Martin Wolf

A magnificent reckoning of how and why the marriage between democracy and capitalism is coming undone all over the world, and what can be done to save it. We are living in an age when economic failings have shaken faith in global capitalism. Political failings have undermined trust in liberal democracy ...