Stu Hennigan is a poet and writer from England based in Leeds. Ghost Signs: Poverty and the Pandemic, Bluemoose’s first non-fiction title, is a reportage of the author’s volunteering experience serving food and medicine to some of Leeds’ most vulnerable communities during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic and of the hardships these suffered.

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey is Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois Chicago. Bettering Humanomics, nominated one of the Best Summer Books by the Financial Times in 2021, challenges behavioral economics and argues that we should place greater emphasis on human actions (and people’s interpretation of them) rather than on institutions in order to make economics a better human science.

Arcade Fire is an indie rock band from Canada. Everything Now is the title track and first single of their fifth album, as well as the band’s first song to hit number one on Billboard charts. Everything Now is a song about consumerism and how always wanting more makes us unsatisfied as we get more and more of what we want and less of what we really need.

Jessie Greengrass is a British writer based in Berwick-Upon-Tweed. The High House, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, the Costa Book Award and the Encore Award, is as a dystopian, apocalyptic novel narrating the story of a small group of survivors of a climate crisis that simultaneously touches on a variety of topics such as capitalism and farming.

Co-produced by the Museum of Civilization of Québec City, Our Time on Earth explores new perspectives and visions for life on our shared planet, looking at Earth as a community and humans as one species among many. Collaborating closely with Studio DVTK, IGP has developed an engaging interactive videogame within the exhibition named Sharing Prosperity which allows users to explore how the planet could flourish through means of radical solidarity, innovative collaboration and shared wealth across all species.

Diane Coyle is economist and Director of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at Cambridge University. Cogs and Monsters debunks several orthodox economic myths – such as that which sees people as ‘cogs’, self-interested agents – revealing instead what is a much more nuanced and complicated economic reality characterized by ‘monsters’, socially influenced unknowns.

Eleanor Jupp is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Kent. Care, Crisis and Activism explores activism and how care is being offered in times of crisis (such as, among others, the COVID-19 pandemic), revealing how in response to weakened institutions people have created their own networks of care offering both a critique of the neo-liberal state and a way forward for the welfare state of the future

Nanjala Nyabola is a writer and political analyst based in Kenya. Travelling While Black, shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year, is a collection of semi-autobiographical essays that examine topics such as identity, race, gender and migration following the journey of an African woman as she travels around the world.

Anna Neima is an historian based in London. The Utopians looks at six experimental communities in different parts of the world, each led by charismatic figures – the ‘utopians’ –, and their struggle to turn their ambitious ideals for a better society into reality.

Part of the Radicals in Conversation podcast series, in this episode Lola Olufemi, Jade Bentil and Gail Lewis discuss a wide range of different topics, from the history of black feminist organising, reproductive justice and grassroot activism to sex work, gender and queer life. A stellar discussion of the limits and futures of feminism.