Slate Books
A roundup of recent books by Slate staff and contributors.
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Rumaan Alam is a Care and Feeding columnist.
Emily Bazelon is a co-host of the Slate Political Gabfest, New York Times Magazine staff writer, and former Slate senior editor.
Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy
By Emily Bazelon. Penguin Random House.
Marcia Chatelain is co-host of The Waves. She is an associate professor of history and African American studies at Georgetown University.
South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration
By Marcia Chatelain. Duke University Press.
Matthew Dessem is Brow Beat’s nights and weekends editor.
The Gag Man: Clyde Bruckman and the Birth of Film Comedy
By Matthew Dessem. The Critical Press.
John Dickerson is co-host of the Slate Political Gabfest, host of the Whistlestop podcast, a contributing writer to the Atlantic, and a 60 Minutes correspondent.
Whistlestop: My Favorite Stories From Presidential Campaign History
By John Dickerson. Twelve.
On Her Trail: My Mother, Nancy Dickerson, TV News’ First Woman Star
By John Dickerson. Simon & Schuster.
Charles Duhigg is the host of How To! He is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and writes for the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and other publications.
Smarter Faster Better: The Transformative Power of Real Productivity
By Charles Duhigg. Random House.
Stefan Fatsis is co-host of Slate’s Hang Up and Listen.
A Few Seconds of Panic: A Sportswriter Plays in the NFL
By Stefan Fatsis. Penguin.
Benjamin Frisch is a podcast producer at Slate.
Every month, Future Tense publishes a new short story that imagines what tomorrow could look like. A partnership of Slate, New America, and Arizona State University, Future Tense explores how emerging technologies will change the way we live, in reality and fiction. Future Tense Fiction is a collection of original fiction commissioned by the partnership.
Henry Grabar is a staff writer for Slate’s Moneybox.
The Future of Transportation: SOM Thinkers Series
By Henry Grabar et al. Metropolis Books.
Jack Hamilton is Slate’s pop critic and a professor at the University of Virginia.
Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination
By Jack Hamilton. Harvard University Press.
Michelle Herman is a Care and Feeding columnist. Her books include The Middle of Everything: Memoirs of Motherhood and an advice book for children, A Girl’s Guide to Life.
Christopher Hitchens, who wrote the Fighting Words column until his death in 2011, is the author of many books, including the posthumously published Mortality. He also wrote Hitch-22: A Memoir; God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything; Thomas Jefferson: Author of America; Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays; Blood, Class, and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship; A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq; and Why Orwell Matters.
Fred Kaplan is Slate’s War Stories columnist and the author, most recently, of The Bomb and Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War. He also wrote the Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestseller The Insurgents.
The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
By Fred Kaplan. Simon & Schuster.
The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War
By Fred Kaplan. Simon & Schuster.
Joshua Keating is a senior editor at Slate focusing on international news, foreign policy, and social science.
Invisible Countries: Journeys to the Edge of Nationhood
By Joshua Keating. Yale University Press.
Dan Kois edits and writes for Slate’s human interest and culture departments and co-hosts the podcast Mom and Dad Are Fighting. He is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine and was the founding editor of New York magazine’s Vulture blog. He also wrote a book about the Hawaiian musician Israel Kamakawiwo’ole called Facing Future.
How to Be a Family: The Year I Dragged My Kids Around the World to Find a New Way to Be Together
By Dan Kois. Little, Brown and Company.
The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America
By Isaac Butler and Dan Kois. Bloomsbury USA.
Danny M. Lavery is Slate’s Dear Prudence. He is the author of Texts From Jane Eyre and The Merry Spinster. His third book, Something That May Shock and Discredit You, is out now.
Josh Levin is Slate’s national editor and hosts the sports podcast Hang Up and Listen.
The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth
By Josh Levin. Little, Brown and Company.
Laura Miller is a books and culture columnist for Slate and the author of The Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventures in Narnia. She also co-edited The Salon.com Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Authors with Adam Begley.
Rebecca Onion is a Slate staff writer.
Innocent Experiments: Childhood and the Culture of Popular Science in the United States
By Rebecca Onion. University of North Carolina Press.
Mike Pesca is the host of Slate’s daily podcast The Gist.
Upon Further Review: The Greatest What-Ifs in Sports History
By Mike Pesca. Twelve.
Justin Peters is a Slate correspondent.
The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet
By Justin Peters. Scribner.
David Plotz is the CEO of Atlas Obscura, host of the Political Gabfest, and former editor in chief of Slate. He is the author, most recently, of Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible, based on his “Blogging the Bible” series for Slate.
Gabriel Roth is Slate’s editorial director for audio.
Will Saletan writes about politics, science, technology, and other stuff for Slate.
Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War
By William Saletan. University of California Press.
Tom Scocca is Slate’s politics editor.
Beijing Welcomes You: Unveiling the Capital City of the Future
By Tom Scocca. Riverhead Books.
Mark Joseph Stern covers courts and the law for Slate.
American Justice 2019: The Roberts Court Arrives
By Mark Joseph Stern. Manchester University Press.
Seth Stevenson is a frequent contributor to Slate.
Grounded: A Down to Earth Journey Around the World
By Seth Stevenson. Riverhead Books.
Carl Wilson is Slate’s music critic.
Celine Dion’s Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste
By Carl Wilson. Continuum.
