Read an excerpt from Won't Lose This Dream: How an Upstart Urban University Rewrote the Rules of a Broken System by award-winning journalist Andrew Gumbel.

Read an excerpt from Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich off America’s Poor by veteran journalist Anne Kim. A devastating investigation into the “corporate poverty complex," a vast web of hidden industries and entrenched private-sector interests that profit from the bureaucracies regulating the lives of the poor.

Lore Segal was a master storyteller known for capturing the immigrant experience with wit and a keen eye, with the New York Times Book Review once saying, “Lore Segal may have come closer than anyone to writing the Great American Novel.” Born in Vienna, Austria, in 1928, she and her family would become refugees in the United Kingdom after fleeing the Nazis, and would immigrate to the United States in 1951. Her writing often drew upon her émigré experience, receiving many awards and accolades including numerous O.