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12 Must-Read Books of June 2026

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By Michael Welch 
| Chicago Review of Books
Things are heating up both in Chicago and in the publishing world! Whether you’re planning summer travel or you’re staying put this month, the books below are sure to take you out of this world. Sci-fi thrillers, gripping gothic horror, and sinister retellings of classic stories abound. But it’s more than adrenaline—the books below offer incredible depth and illuminating insights on our modern condition. In fact, I see two really interesting trends across this list.
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Societies Contoured Along Penal Power

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By Michael Welch 
| ucpress.edu
by Michael Welch, author of Visions of Prisons: Wars, Walls, and Watching The genesis for the book Visions of Prisons reaches back to year 2014 while I was a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, Mannheim Centre for Criminology in the Department of Social Policy. From London, I took a short flight to Belfast in order to conduct fieldwork on the “peace lines” separating the Catholic and Protestant communities.
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Unionizing As Passion Protection: A Conversation with the Hachette Workers Coalition

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By Michael Welch 
| Chicago Review of Books
On April 28, 2026, 600 employees at Hachette Book Group—the Big Five publisher that includes imprints such as Little, Brown and Company, Algonquin, Grand Central Publishing, and more—announced the largest unionization campaign in trade publisher history. The Hachette Workers Coalition (HWC) seeks livable wages, better working conditions, a cap on workload hours, AI protections, and follow-through on DEI policies.
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