Anne Helen Petersen

Only some of us are riding Peloton bikes and ordering food via app. But this can still disrupt everything.

Readings that the podcast’s guests say shaped their thinking.

Well-researched stories from Culture Study, Christianity Today, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Are these great titles still on your TBR? Now you can get them in the best format.

What if caring for kids was a public good?

Our book critic recommends apocalyptic fiction and more.

Here’s the background on Armie Hammer’s months of controversy, from cannibal sexts to allegations of sexual assault.

The actor’s life seemed perfect—beautiful wife and kids, sparkling Hollywood career. But a glimpse into his family history reveals how shocking allegations over dark fantasies of cannibalism and bondage—and the ensuing fallout—are one more chapter in the Hammers’ fraught legacy.

Canceling debt is what’s needed to ensure a solid, equitable middle class.

From a reclusive heiress to twins whose lives take divergent paths, you’ll ruminate on these thought-provoking books long after you finish.

Previously perceived as weakness at home or in the workplace, burnout can no longer be ignored by either employers or employees.

Kuper tells the story of the ‘least known but the most damaging of all the British double agents’

When journalist Anne Helen Petersen’s editor suggested she might be suffering from burnout, instead of acknowledging the entirely correct diagnosis and taking a much needed break, Petersen pitched an essay on what she had come to call errand paralysis. By which she meant the inability to execute tho…

A new book presents burnout as a generational issue, but this is a trap.

So many Black families have been shut out of stability at every turn.

Anne Helen Petersen talks to sociologist Rachel Sherman about class, inequality, and what it means to be a “good” rich person.

Your digest of analysis and commentary from the British and international press

A reader says publishers aren’t bound by free-speech protections. Also: Remote work; evictions in the pandemic; landlords in a bind.

The system is at fault, not individuals ... a study of burnout makes clear why it’s wrong to portray millennials as flimsy, fickle or lazy

Hammer began trending online after a series of sexually graphic Instagram DMs that he allegedly wrote to a woman were leaked publicly by an anonymous, now-private account, House of Effie.