New Journalism

It may be hard to imagine that Malcolm Gladwell, a staff writer for the New Yorker and bestselling author beloved by millions of readers, could be a crooked propagandist for some of the most toxic and destructive industries on the planet. Investigative journalist Yasha Levine didn't think it was possible, either—at least not until he happened to stumble across an old article by Gladwell defending the tobacco industry, and discovered a paper trail that led him to the shocking truth... Levine presents well-sourced evidence showing that Gladwell spent his entire career systematically and ...

What is Australia’s place in the new global landscape? Are we ready for our post-American future? In an era of rising danger for all, and dramatic choices for Australia, Hugh White explores how the world is changing and Australia should respond. Under Donald Trump, America's retreat from global leadership has been swift and erratic. China, Russia and India are on the move. White explains the big strategic trends driving the war in Ukraine, and why America has "lost" Asia.

In his highly anticipated debut essay collection, Impossible Owls, Brian Phillips demonstrates why he's one of the most iconoclastic journalists of the digital age, beloved for his ambitious, off-kilter, meticulously reported essays. The eight essays assembled here go beyond simply chronicling some of the modern world's most uncanny, unbelievable, and spectacular oddities. Researched for months and even years on end, they explore the interconnectedness of the globalized world, the consequences of history, the power of myth, and the ways people attempt to find meaning.

Journalism of the 21st century has underwent transcendent metamorphosis; there are soaring differences between today’s journalism and the journalism of the yesteryears. When journalism kicked off for the very first time on the earth, printed newspapers were the sole medium used to furnish information. Then, magazines, television, radio and Internet entered the scene. As of today, newspapers are reeling under colossal pressure from the World Wide Web. Currently, more people are endeavoring to plunge into the Internet mania. Sleek gadgets and social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, ...

In this perceptive, compelling essay, Katharine Murphy offers a profile of Anthony Albanese in motion – a piece about character, the balance of forces, and the mood of the nation. Are Albanese and his party up for change? Are Australians up for it? What does the new prime minister embody, if anything? Has the centre of the polity shifted, with the success of the Teals and the Greens? Where could – and should – the new government be ambitious?

How can you cheat… at drinking wine? It turns out you can. And when you do, a whole world of power, ego and money will unravel. Corked is the scandalous saga in the glamorous, competitive and mysterious world of fine wines.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and The Times (London) From National Book Award–winning author Evan Osnos comes a “sharp…charming…regrettably timely” (The Washington Post) collection of essays exploring American oligarchy, billionaire...

The riveting story of three women reporters and the way they changed the world, work, and journalism. She hid on a Red Cross boat to reach Omaha Beach on D-Day. She walked the abandoned streets of Hong Kong to take food to her daughter’s father, a prisoner of war. She fought off the advances...

Tracy Kidder's "riveting" (Washington Post) story of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and has become essential reading for understanding the history of the American tech industry. Computers have changed since...

This program is read by actor and singer-songwriter Maya Hawke, star of Netflix's Stranger Things. "Narrating in a voice as clear and sustaining as a cool glass of water, Hawke’s unflashy approach allows the words to reveal their magic."—The Orange County Register "Didion’s timeless essays...

She had a name. The hospital called her Jane Doe 2026-001. When nineteen-year-old Kiki Toussaint's mother disappears on New Year's Eve, the trail ends at Rapp Memorial Medical Center. Her mother is dead—processed as unidentified despite having ID in her purse, despite Kiki calling every hospital in New Orleans, despite a family desperately searching. The hospital's explanation: "Unable to locate next of kin." But Kiki knows the truth. Her mother didn't fall through the cracks. Someone made her disappear. Investigative journalist Samantha Paul has seen this before. Black women vanishing ...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times From the editor of The New Yorker: a riveting account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which has become the standard book on the subject. Lenin’s Tomb combines the global vision of the best historical...

In 1898, the ancient Spanish Empire, weak but proud, clashed with a young, ambitious United States, a nation brimming with industrial power and a new sense of destiny. This swift and brutal conflict was not just a splendid little war, but a violent changing of the guard that redrew the map of global power. From the halls of diplomacy to the front lines, the world held its breath as a new century was about to be born in gunfire. "Remember the Maine!" became the rallying cry that sent American sailors and soldiers into battle, igniting theaters of war thousands of miles apart. Witness ...

In search of an explanation for the crisis that reached an unsettling crescendo in 2020 - a year of pandemic, civil unrest, and political turmoil - National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Evan Osnos returned to three places he knew firsthand: Greenwich, Connecticut; Clarksburg, West Virginia; and Chicago, Illinois. Reported over the course of six years, Wildland follows ordinary individuals as they navigate the varied landscapes of 21st-century America. Through their powerful, often poignant stories, Osnos traces the sources of America’s political dissolution.

THE MAKING AND MEANING OF RADIOHEAD'S GROUNDBREAKING, CONTROVERSIAL, EPOCHDEFINING ALBUM, KID A. In 1999, as the end of an old century loomed, five musicians entered a recording studio in Paris without a deadline. Their band was widely recognized as the best and most forward-thinking in rock, a...

The Roaring Twenties are remembered for jazz, flappers, and glittering nightlife—but beneath the glamour, America was learning a new way to live inside media. In Fame, Fear, and the New American Dream, Book Five of the Hidden History Files: The Roaring Twenties series, Elliot Christopher uncovers how the 1920s created modern celebrity culture, scandal journalism, moral panic, propaganda techniques, and the mass marketing of identity. This was the decade when radio entered the living room, Hollywood perfected the star system, tabloids turned private lives into public spectacle, and ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A frighteningly prescient look at Iran’s unchecked growth as a hidden superpower, and the threat the nation will soon pose to the United States—and the world. “The most important book on the Middle East to appear in many years”—Thomas Powers, Pulitzer...

Bearing Witness While Black tells the story of this century's most powerful Black social movement through the eyes of fifteen activists who documented it. At the height of the Black Lives Matter uprisings, African Americans filmed and tweeted evidence of fatal police encounters in dozens of US cities - using little more than the device in their pockets. Their urgent dispatches from the frontlines spurred a global debate on excessive police force, which claimed the lives of African American men, women, and children at disproportionate rates.

From the beloved host of Good Morning America and New York Times bestselling author Robin Roberts, a guide to instilling hope and optimism into readers’ lives, infusing their days with positivity and encouragement. Over the last 16 years as the esteemed anchor of Good Morning America, Robin...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Magnificent.” —The New York Times * “Beguiling, observant, and howlingly funny.” —San Francisco Chronicle * “Spectacular.” —Star Tribune (Minneapolis) * “Full of astonishments.” —The Boston Globe Susan Orlean—the beloved New Yorker staff writer...