Atlantic Books

The Internet Age: on the face of it, an era of unprecedented freedom in both communication and culture. Yet in the past, each major new medium, from telephone to satellite television, has crested on a wave of similar idealistic optimism, before succumbing to the inevitable undertow of industrial consolidation. Every once free and open technology...

Psychologist Cass Seltzer's book, The Variety of Religious Illusion, has become a surprise runaway bestseller. Dubbed 'the atheist with a soul', Cass's sudden celebrity has upended his life and brought back the ghosts of his past. Over the course of one week, Cass's theories about our need to keep faith are borne out in ways he could never have...

There have been three periods of high immigration since 1945: in the 1950s, the 1970s and finally in the years following 1997, when the country absorbed the highest levels of net immigration in its history. In this period, more than 2.5 million people, from all over the world, came to Britain in search of a better life for themselves and their...

From the bestselling author of "Paradise Power", this new book argues that liberal democratic states and autocratic countries are currently on a collision course. Kagan served in the State Department from 1984 to 1998, and states in this controversial work that the peoples of the liberal world need to choose whether they want to shape history or...

An audacious, fresh portrait of marginalized, fatalistic post-Communist youth. Andrzej 'Nails' Robakoski is a tracksuited slacker who spends most of his time doing nothing other than searching for his next line of speed and dreaming up conspiracy theories about the national economy. Dumped by his girlfriend Magda, a beautiful seductress, he turns...

Welcome to fifth-century Britain: the Romans have left, the Saxons have invaded, the towns are decaying and the countryside is dangerous. Malgwyn ap Cuneglas, an embittered former soldier who lost a limb in combat, is now a trusted advisor to Arthur, the High King of all Britannia. When a monk dies in horrific circumstances in Glastonbury Abbey,...