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2026

Everyone was scared, but no one talked about it.

Dispatches is a classic work of Vietnam War literature—part journalism, part memoir, part literary experiment. An early and outstanding example of the New Journalism, Herr’s rendering of his experiences as a Vietnam War correspondent are immersive and subjective. He writes in a fast, almost hallucinatory, stream-of-consciousness style. Not about military strategy but about the experience–masculinity, violence, brotherhood. Raw, personal and morally unsettled.

Herr later co-wrote Apocalypse Now, a film directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

panmacmillan.com

2026

The book argues that today’s surge in anxiety, depression, and social withdrawal among young people—especially Gen Z—is largely driven by how childhood changed in the 2010s. Its central thesis: childhood shifted from being play-based and independence-rich to phone-based and safety-obsessed, and that shift rewired kids’ social, emotional, and cognitive development—particularly during adolescence.

penguin.co.uk

2026

Published in 2020, the book analyses the deepening political polarisation in the United States. Core ideas: identity as the root of polarisation, historical realignment (Civil Rights Act of 1964), structural loops (political institutions, media, psychology, social sorting), and polarised politics ‘by design’.

Klein suggests that almost all political conflict today is identity-driven rather than rooted in restrained policy disagreement. His book helps explain why political debates feel less about policy and more about who we are.

simonandschuster.com