It’s a typical summer afternoon here in the UK (wet, cold and grey); what could be better than a good book (and cup of tea)?

Andrew Brooks’ Clothing Poverty: The Hidden World of Fast Fashion and Second-Hand Clothes reviewed by Alex Loftus, Mike Goodman, Josh Lepawsky and James Sidaway (with a response from the author);

Nick Vaughan-Williams’ Europe’s Border Crisis: Biopolitical Security and Beyond reviewed by Julien Brachet (University of Oxford);

John Holloway’s In, Against, and Beyond Capitalism reviewed by Stella Darby (University of Leeds);

Katherine Gibson and colleagues’ Manifesto for Living in the Anthropocene reviewed by Harlan Morehouse (University of Vermont);

Kate Cairns and Josée Johnston’s Food and Femininity, Julie Parsons’ Gender, Class and Food and Megan Carney’s The Unending Hunger reviewed by Michael Chrobok (University of Toronto);

Traci Brynne Voyles’ Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country reviewed by Dawn Hoogeveen (University of British Columbia);

Simin Fadaee’s Understanding Southern Social Movements