Cultural Studies
The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live
Hardback
An NPR Favorite History Book of 2021
The surprising, often fiercely feminist, always fascinating, yet barely known, history of home economics.
The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media
Updated Edition
Paperback
New York Times Bestseller
With a New Afterword
“A comic book with zest and brains—one that just might help a reader understand the brave new world.” —The New Yorker
Appropriate: A Provocation
Paperback
A timely, nuanced work that dissects the thorny debate around cultural appropriation and the literary imagination.
The Season: A Social History of the Debutante
Paperback
“...Kristen Richardson’s sharp account of how the season evolved... is a more absorbing story than any period drama.”—Financial Times
Audience of One: Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America
Paperback
Using television Audience of One reframes America through the rattled mind of a septuagenarian, insomniac, cable-news-junkie president.