Books like Crazy like us

A journalist-led tour through the social science of depression, moving from lab to community to protest in search of causes and cures.

A sprawling, erudite investigation of depression that braids memoir, science, history, and interview into a single humane inquiry.

A first-person confession that reframes decades of development economics as covert empire-building, delivered with the urgency of a whistleblower and the guilt of a participant.

A dense, muckraking investigation of brand culture, sweatshop labor, and the corporate colonization of public space — reported with journalistic rigor and animated by a clear anti-corporate polemic.

A first-person account of a student journalist chasing down a research-misconduct story that toppled a university president — investigative, candid, and driven by the tension of speaking truth to institutional power.

A journalistic tour through labs, wards, and boardrooms arguing that psychopathic traits sit on a spectrum we all share — provocative pop-science with reporter-on-the-ground color.

A policy-forward economics textbook that walks through development models with country case studies, pitched to be technically rigorous yet approachable for non-economists.

A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction that braids a family's grief with an investigation into London's criminal underworld — Keefe's signature reportorial patience with a mystery's forward pull.