Dennis C. Rasmussen: The Infidel and the Professor

Alexander Pope: An Essay on Man

Namwali Serpell: Stranger Faces

Theodor W. Adorno: Aspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism

Yan Lianke: The Years, Months, Days

Rebecca Solnit: Hope in the Dark

Jonathan Lear: Radical Hope

Michael Löwy: Fire Alarm

Stephen Gaukroger: The Failures of Philosophy

Seamus Heaney: The Cure at Troy

Terry Eagleton: Hope without Optimism

C. V. Wedgwood: William the Silent

Nolen Gertz: Nihilism

Flann O'Brien: The Third Policeman

William James: The Varieties of Religious Experience

David E. Cooper: Senses of Mystery

Otto Dov Kulka: Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death

Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer: Towards a New Manifesto

Paul Auster: Hand to Mouth

Peter E. Gordon: Adorno and Existence

Stuart Jeffries: Grand Hotel Abyss