Shelf Life

Air conditioning makes individuals cooler, but the planet hotter. Writer Eric Dean Wilson explores that paradox in his new book.

“She was prescient in many ways,” says Nina Banks, editor of a new book on the speeches and writing of Sadie T. M. Alexander.

In a new book, Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman looks at a problem with human judgement.

In her new book, “The Secret History of Home Economics,” Danielle Dreilinger challenges common perceptions of a once-thriving profession.

In an excerpt from her new book, science journalist Chelsea Wald writes on the unintended result of a movement to ban pay toilets.

In his new book, "Children Under Fire," John Woodrow Cox writes about how gun violence affects children and the nearly $3 billion market for school security.

Professor Dorothy Brown of Emory University became a "detective," searching for data on how the tax code impacts Black Americans.

In a new book, Michael Patrick F. Smith reflects on his time working on an oil field in North Dakota.

In her new book, "The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together," Heather McGhee looks at how racism drained not only public pools, but also public support for universal healthcare and other "big government" policies.

In a new book, sociologist Reuben Jonathan Miller explores the punishments formerly imprisoned people face after their release. Read an excerpt here.