books-and-authors

Remember Who’s Feeding You Your Oscar-Bait Poverty Porn

When America wants easy, comforting answers, books like ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ — and Ivy League asshole J.D. Vance — provide them

In This Graphic Memoir, the Anxiety of OCD Is a Visual Trip

In ‘Everything Is An Emergency,’ Jason Adam Katzenstein gazes deeply into the narrative themes of his mental space

Coronavirus Has Taken Our Nostalgia Addiction to New Extremes

A new book by Canadian writer David Berry takes a critical lens to our fondness for the cozy past, explaining the risks of a backward gaze

The Florida Books That Actually Explain America

By sifting through a swamp of stereotypes, authors from the Sunshine State have discovered a national truth