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Aprile 2000. Mattina. Sull'East River. Il giovane miliardario Eric Packer esce dal suo lussuoso attico a tre piani e sale sulla limousine bianca per andare a tagliarsi i capelli a Hell's Kitchen. È l'inizio di un viaggio lungo un giorno che lo porterà ad attraversare Manhattan per andare incontro al proprio destino. Durante il tragitto Packer, ossessionato da una folle scommessa finanziaria contro lo yen e da un'oscura "minaccia attendibile" alla propria incolumità, incontra gli uomini e le donne della sua vita sullo sfondo di scenari erotici, o tragici, o enigmatici.

From the bestselling author of White Noise comes a riveting exploration on wealth as a man's life gradually falls to pieces over the course of one day—now a major motion picture directed by David Cronenberg and starring Robert Pattinson. It is an April day in the year 2000 and an era is about...

The Fascism This Time elucidates a psychosocial model of fascism which predicted that Trump’s election would lead to immigrant concentration camps, an assault on democratic institutions, a global increase in authoritarianism, a massive rise in crimes against humanity, and the starvation of Yemen. It is an original and perceptive account tying the fascism this time to the overwhelming challenges with which the world is now faced.

The breakdown of the liberal international order over the course of the last decade unleashed a string of crimes against humanity, culminating in the election of rightwing nationalists and fascists the world over. It might be said to have begun with Putin’s land grab in Ukraine in 2014. However, it was half a year later that Isis’s terror-state in the heart of the Middle East, Israel’s annihilation of Gaza, and Assad’s ongoing mass murder in Syria would culminate in a summer of hate that would transform our very conception of the world.