In Saving Talk Therapy, Enrico Gnaulati argues that in-depth, long-term, interpersonal psychotherapy remains one of the best tools for alleviating emotional suffering.
In Duped, Abby Ellin explores what people need from each other, and the lies and suspensions of disbelief that sometimes help them get it.
Ieva Jusionyte explores the spirit of first response in an area where dangers don't care about boundaries.
Katya Cengel tracks the lives of four families following the fall of the genocidal Khmer Rouge.
A nervous storm cloud of historical might-have-beens—a fitting companion to our age of diffuse paranoia.
Sociologist Eve Ewing analyzes the closings from multiple angles.
A portrait of the stressed and shrinking American middle class.
Ken Auletta's latest book explores the chaotic world of contemporary advertising.
Behind the nationwide program that empowered health authorities to surveil women, quarantine them in miserable conditions, and force them to undergo painful and ineffective treatments.
With help from readers who wrote to him about their workplace experiences, anthropologist David Graeber develops a taxonomy of bullshit jobs.
Historian Annelise Orleck traveled to Mexico, Cambodia, and Bangladesh, plus all across America, to interview low-wage workers fighting for better conditions and pay.
Sociologist Cynthia Miller-Idriss argues how brands sneak past German laws against Nazi symbols while building a community among customers.
Professor John Hoberman turns his attention to cops.
Journalist Noam Cohen's new book argues that Silicon Valley is a social wrecking ball, but is that perspective enough to create change?
In her new book, lawyer Tanya Osensky argues that constantly monitoring height is a symptom and driver of a pervasive "heightism" that unjustly frames tallness as powerful and shortness as weak.
Journalist Lauren Markham's new book tells the story of twin teenage brothers who migrate from gang-ridden El Salvador to Oakland, California.
In her new book, martial artist Wendy Rouse digs into the history of women fighting back.
A new book by a German historian looks at the conflicting history of segregation in commercial air travel.
Erik Love's new book is invaluable for its detailed chronicle of Muslim-American activism.
Jennifer Latson's debut illustrates a boy's coming-of-age, complicated by a genetic disorder that strips peoples' social inhibitions.
Jonathan W. White argues that the Civil War might have been the most sleepless period in American history.
A portrait of George Washington as slave master.
