When Matthew Desmond published his first book, “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” in 2016, he set out to immerse himself in the everyday lives of people facing eviction. Along with a ...

Matthew McConaughey — the best-selling memoirist, UT Austin professor, and oh yeah, Oscar-winning actor — is set to publish his first children's book. Out Sept. 12, Just Because is billed as a ...

“Books about poverty tend to be books about the poor,” the sociologist Matthew Desmond writes in “Poverty, by America” (Crown). That’s true whether the motivation is to blame the poor for their ...