Media Library

A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking with Statistics and the Scientific Method

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Bad Feminist: Essays

Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns and One Intact Glass Ceiling

Cinema Speculation: Hollywood History Through the Eyes of a Contemporary Filmmaker

Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue

Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies

Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

Flat Earth News: An Award-Winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion, and Propaganda in the Global Media

Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza

Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media

Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Advertising Industry (and Everything Else)

Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned Women Against Themselves

How Music Got Free: What happens when an entire generation commits the same crime?

Killing the Legends: The Lethal Danger of Celebrity

Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories

Love, Pamela: A Tell-All Memoir of the Actress, Icon & Former Playboy Playmate

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues From Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

My Name Is Barbra: Uncover the Intimate Story of a True Entertainment Titan

Personal History: Uncover the remarkable story of America’s leading lady of letters

Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now

Public Opinion: Uncover the Hidden Forces Shaping Public Perception

Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality

Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction to Its Own Past

Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World!

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story that Helped Ignite a Movement

Simulacra and Simulation: Discover Truth in Illusion

Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation

Stop Reading the News: How to Cope with the Information Overload and Think More Clearly

Streaming, Sharing, Stealing: Big Data and the Future of Entertainment

Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay: The (Dodgy) Business of Popular Music

The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads

The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent

The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump

The Office BFFs: Tales of the Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There

The News: A User’s Manual

The Society of the Spectacle: A Thought-Provoking Critique of Consumer Culture

The Witches Are Coming: Education on gender politics

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Art's Aura in the Modern Era

Thick: And Other Essays

This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship Between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture

Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator