https://www.ben-platt.com/work daily 0.75 2020-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1612142339419-AL6WQHQ8XPE0HQF4J3T4/Screen+Shot+2021-01-31+at+12.31.37+PM.png Work https://www.ben-platt.com/books daily 1.0 2026-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1757600754133-CGYZ04ALQH3IN6SNJKHM/cgayle_BLACK+MOSES.jpg Work - * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Longlist * * WASHINGTON POST 100 Best Books of the Year * * NEW YORK TIMES 100 Notable Books of the Year * * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Best Books of the Year * * KIRKUS Best Books of the Year * * CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY Favorite Books of the Year * "Fascinating... astute... illuminat[ing]." —WASHINGTON POST “Gorgeous… eloquent… stunning.” —MINNESOTA STAR TRIBUNE “Voluminous research and vivid prose… a fascinating story.” —BOSTON GLOBE Caleb Gayle, Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State. Riverhead, 8/12/2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1757600754133-CGYZ04ALQH3IN6SNJKHM/cgayle_BLACK+MOSES.jpg Work - * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Longlist * * WASHINGTON POST 100 Best Books of the Year * * NEW YORK TIMES 100 Notable Books of the Year * * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Best Books of the Year * * KIRKUS Best Books of the Year * * CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY Favorite Books of the Year * "Fascinating... astute... illuminat[ing]." —WASHINGTON POST “Gorgeous… eloquent… stunning.” —MINNESOTA STAR TRIBUNE “Voluminous research and vivid prose… a fascinating story.” —BOSTON GLOBE Caleb Gayle, Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State. Riverhead, 8/12/2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1728404406546-VS037TCDJ2M9U1MQKM29/SWalterREHAB.jpg Work - “Revelatory… a remarkable journalistic feat.” —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW “Shocking… [a] stunning debut investigation.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (*) “Riveting… shocking.” —AMAZON Editors’ Picks "Propulsively plotted, meticulously researched, and told with an authority that is both heartfelt and hard-won." —BETH MACY, author of DOPESICK Shoshana Walter. Rehab: An American Scandal, Simon & Schuster, 8/12/2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1630616809511-M92B9WE9LO627T007HX5/HowToSellAPoison.jpeg Work - Forthcoming: Bold Type Books, 2022 Elena Conis, How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT. Bold Type Books, 4/12/2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1761761778792-LDY4BXJQLDUWZDGIT793/image-asset.jpeg Work - "Rich and enlightening... Deeply researched, this is a valuable and engaging volume." —MS. MAGAZINE "Formidable and riveting... This is the work of a world-class scholar firing on all-cylinders." —AMIA SRINIVASAN, author of THE RIGHT TO SEX Durba Mitra, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism. Princeton University Press, 3/17/2026. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1673983020796-OOV0Z3MKY0MDFMRYUGM5/9780674979963-lg.jpg Work - * WINNER OF THE 2022 BANCROFT PRIZE * * NEW YORK TIMES Critics’ Top Books of 2021 * “Superb history.” —NEW YORK TIMES “Extraordinary… powerful.” —Ibram X. Kendi Mia Bay, Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance, Belknap Press, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1691163107458-K4I7NBF6C4NJBKKNXRIA/image-asset.jpeg Work - "Paradigm-shifting... incredible insider reporting... riveting... a must read." —Sarah Schulman, BOOKFORUM “Indispensable.” —Esmat Elhalaby, THE BAFFLER "Remarkable... invaluable." —ROBIN D. G. KELLEY “Rigorous and jaw-dropping... An explosive contribution from a brilliant young scholar.” –NAOMI KLEIN Maya Wind, Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom. Verso, 1/30/2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1770137248864-4QBW4UX0DL44RVL1OPDD/sweet-land-bitter-deal-immigrant-detention-and-unbreathable-air-in-florida-s-sugarcane-heartland.jpg Work - “In building and operating the Glades County Detention Center, the County inadvertently opened a black hole” “Sweet Land, Bitter Deal: Immigrant Detention and Unbreathable Air in Florida's Sugarcane Heartland.” American Friends Services Committee (in collaboration with ACLU of Florida, Detention Watch Network, Earthjustice, Freedom for Immigrants and Immigrant Action Alliance released a report documenting conditions at Glades County Detention Center). 1/30/2026. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1763492359066-OC003WDA718CN6WY734E/valinasriransgrandstrategy.jpg Work - A Best Book of the Summer — FINANCIAL TIMES “Could not be more timely… find[s] method and reason behind the thinking at the highest levels within the Iranian leadership... shed[s] a welcome light." —Peter Frankopan, FINANCIAL TIMES "Pathbreaking... Even experts will be startled by what Nasr reveals in this essential blueprint .” —ROBERT D. KAPLAN "Informative and useful... revealing." —FOREIGN AFFAIRS Vali Nasr, Iran's Grand Strategy: A Political History. Princeton University Press, 5/20/2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1741381065765-1T5NQGTSFXPZ26XGQAAS/hartungfreeman.jpg Work - “This is it: the definitive account of America’s wasteful, corrupt, and astonishingly ineffective military industrial complex." —ANDREW BACEVICH “A damning indictment” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY “A resounding denunciation…. surprising… convincing.” —KIRKUS “Sobering—and well worth reading.” —Jerry Brown, former governor of California William D. Hartung & Ben Freeman. The Trillion Dollar War Machine: How Runaway Military Spending Drives America into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us At Home, Bold Type Books, 11/11/2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1732035569821-E2RZ4L16E2Q2HV16X4S3/sample+cover+JGaffield.JPG Work - * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Book of the Year * "Prodigious... fascinating... propulsively readable. A stunning achievement.” —ADA FERRER “Groundbreaking… [Gaffield] has succeeded in the vital mission of offering a faithful account of Dessalines’s life, while underscoring his immense contributions not simply to Haitian freedom, but to the transatlantic abolitionist movement.” —Marlene Daut, Public Books Julia Gaffield, I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom. Yale University Press, 6/17/2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1727873604380-D5GGKNLXFYL5AGXLS817/image-asset.jpeg Work - "One of the most thorough, urgent, and critical accounts of the immigrant detention system to be published in years." —AUSTIN KOCHER, Substack "Revealing... forceful... shines an urgent spotlight on an inhumane system." —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "The most thorough breakdown of the immigration enforcement industrial complex that I have ever read... you will find no book more important than this." —TODD MILLER Nancy Hiemstra & Deirdre Conlon, Immigration Detention Inc.: The Big Business of Locking up Migrants. Pluto Press, 6/20/2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1732298577553-E3FF1V0071VKX37EHTZD/ymoon2.jpg Work - "Excellent... very valuable." —ODD ARNE WESTAD Edited by Yumi Moon. Cold War Refugees: Connected Histories of Displacement and Migration across Postcolonial Asia. Stanford University Press, 7/22/2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1630682726153-IKCZ2U4T7DTTRHM3FQ12/HowToSellAPoison.jpeg Work - “Unexpected… gripping… prescient.” —LOS ANGELES TIMES “Monumental—and monumentally disturbing… One of Conis’s greatest achievements is to put a human face on this science of risk." —NEW REPUBLIC “Shocking… captivating… timely.” —KIRKUS (*) “What Merchants of Doubt did for earlier campaigns of corporate disinformation, How to Sell a Poison does, superbly." —ADAM HOCHSCHILD Elena Conis, How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT. Bold Type Books, 4/12/2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1678110101067-8AFOB9Z4EMFHJPUG25D1/image-asset.jpeg Work - "Fantastic" —Brian Merchant, LOS ANGELES TIMES "Invaluable." —MALCOLM HARRIS “Careful and powerful” —AMERICAN PROSPECT “Vivid… offer[s] policymakers, labor organizers, and community activists insights.”—RUTH WILSON GILMORE Katie J. Wells, Kafui Attoh, & Declan Cullen, Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City. Princeton University Press, 8/15/2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1642194944414-X2G1TZIBN5LIJ3NXI317/9781645036586.jpeg Work - * Shortlist, J. ANTHONY LUKAS BOOK PRIZE * "Compel[s] a reader to feel the era’s anguish and urgency... give[s] the activists’ trajectory a novel’s momentum… an important contribution to the annals of AIDS.” —NEW YORK TIMES “Fascinating... thrilling... captivating.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (*) “Totally compelling… Immediately read this book.” —MAGGIE NELSON Jack Lowery, It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic. Bold Type Books, 4/5/2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1719242447781-3T8U0I7V6SWV6BXS7KW8/image-asset.jpeg Work - "Compelling." —Max Chafkin, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW “Phenomenal… a real-life horror story.” —BOING BOING “Sharp reporting… fascinating… juicy.” — PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (*) "Shines some much needed light into the darkest recesses to today’s mediascape.” — EDWARD ONGWESO, JR. “Expert, careful, and devastating.” —JEET HEER Eoin Higgins, Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left. Bold Type Books, 2/4/2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1638902344780-94RFYYPH5IT1731Z3OYE/9780593329580.jpeg Work - "Compelling... Black Creek stories, rich with both the subtleties and the crudenesses of America’s racial history, force us all to contemplate new forms of reckoning." —NEW YORKER “Illuminating... brilliantly untangles the interwoven threads of colonialism, racism, and capitalism." —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (*) “A brilliance we’ve seldom seen or imagined… a new standard in book-making.” —KIESE LAYMON Caleb Gayle, We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power. Riverhead Books, 6/7/2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1630616803269-TSCAZM3B6C7IDEX0EMM4/HailMary.jpeg Work - “Glorious and galvanizing.” —OPRAH DAILY “This underdog story is a delight.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Britni de la Cretaz & Lyndsey D’Arcangelo, Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women’s Football League, Bold Type Books, 11/2/2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1630617780460-6NWRUJS2JZZPLV7OYB3O/Roth-Insane-784x1184.jpg Work - “Essential exposé.” —NEW YORKER “Devastating… It’s hard to read Insane without concluding that the way the criminal justice system has dealt with mental illness is profoundly broken.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES “Superb… Revealing.” —NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS Alisa Roth, Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness. Basic Books, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1630616812153-9Y3IPIPF5XCV97V6QP8W/9781645036722.jpg Work - “Incisive and unsparing... Essential.” —BOSTON GLOBE "Impeccable... Important." —SEATTLE TIMES "A hard look at social injustices in ballet and how to end them… A vigorously reported critique." —KIRKUS Chloe Angyal, Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers Is Saving Ballet from Itself, Bold Type Books, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1703184907234-4GBIDVZ6F71EUQASIYHI/image-asset.jpeg Work - "A genuine masterpiece." — ROBIN D. G. KELLEY * Winner of the 2025 Society for US Intellectual History Book Prize * "Fascinating and powerful... sweeping... reverses much of what Americans have learned to accept about the Constitution." —THE NATION "Bold." —NEW YORK TIMES “Astonishing… No more important book about the Constitution has appeared in a hundred years—if ever.” —SAMUEL MOYN Aziz Rana, The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them. University of Chicago Press, 4/16/2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1630616802283-3ZT257CO46M3GYQEVTS4/9780691183589.jpeg Work - “Enlightening ... The writing is crisp and jargon-free.” —NEW YORK TIMES "The best modern workplace ethnography that I've ever read." —Robert I. Sutton Beth A. Bechky, Blood, Powder, and Residue: How Crime Labs Translate Evidence into Proof. Princeton University Press, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1683666723175-XLXE05XXI1H8TUS5EW6A/81YlfzqhQ1L.jpeg Work - "[A] provocative critique" — FOREIGN AFFAIRS “Important." —PHENOMENAL WORLD Narges Bajoghli, Vali Nasr, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, and Ali Vaez, How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare. Stanford University Press, 2/6/2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1634153581919-C2CLKQG9SXBPS6XKSEW4/71Re5EInveL.jpeg Work - A Best Book of the Year — PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "Impressive." —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "Dazzling" —SCIENCE "Captivates... bracing and bold." —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (*) “A grand tour of the world and the mind, led by one of the world’s leading experts on emotion and culture. The journey is a joy, full of puzzles, insights, and empathy” ― JONATHAN HAIDT Batja Mesquita, Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions. W. W. Norton & Company, 7/19/2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1635176724484-23F2RZL60YWT3BTE9N5I/81I2Nlyk9aL.jpeg Work - “Wry, clever, and precise... Feltman’s perspective is priceless. Along with her insight, she is funny, especially when she’s writing about sex, which she does a lot.” —Bill Nye “Wide-ranging and entertaining… Feltman is sassy and opinionated… despite much of her subject matter being deeply serious, she writes about it with humor.” —DAILY MAIL “Playful, myth-busting… Enlivened by Feltman’s keen sense of humor and affirmational tone… entertaining and informative” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Rachel Feltman, Been There, Done That: A Rousing History of Sex. Bold Type Books, 5/17/2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1630616803963-QJDHKT5VLXX8LDRKN3WS/oxr2BgRR8WiezGw9fZTawN-1024-80.jpeg Work - “Popular science at its very best… As riveting as a thriller.” —NEWSWEEK “Remarkable… an uplifting, exhilarating, fascinating journey.” –CHICAGO TRIBUNE “Riveting… a nail-biter.” –WALL STREET JOURNAL “Spellbinding.” —SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN Alan Stern and David Grinspoon, Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto. Picador, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1635176821879-L8PB8UCE9UNQPWOYNYOO/WomensHouseOfDetention_10c.jpeg Work - One of Sarah Schulman's Best Books of the 21st Century (NYTBR) "Essential, abolitionist work." —ELECTRIC LITERATURE "Hugh Ryan is a master historian and storyteller." —LITERARY HUB “Informative, empathetic... a vital contribution to LGBTQ history.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Hugh Ryan, The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison. Bold Type Books, 5/10/2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1770137260585-2N1JNSFDCPEO74M2EBRO/Terra-Incognita.jpg Work - "This is the biggest revelation of Terra Incognita NYC: the digital city, for better and for worse, actually reinforced the physical city." “Terra Incognita NYC: Mapping New York City’s New Digital Public Spaces During the COVIF-19 Outbreak.” New York University and New_ Public. 12/1/2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1710428459040-98RJ1M3V2ML1Q5ZIO257/image-asset.jpeg Work - "Extraordinary... Anyone interested in the impact of the press on an evolving democracy should read this book." —RODERIC AI CAMP, coauthor of POLITICS IN MEXICO Julieta Brambila, Mexico's Resilient Journalists: How Reporters Manage Risk and Cope with Violence. Columbia University Press, August 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1696729494552-RIUMI9DRI06NBJWQAG2F/image-asset.jpeg Work - "Ahmann folds time and space in this stunning ethnography... a vital intervention." -JOSEPH P. MASCO "I began this book as an anthropologist, but a few pages in, realized I was reading it as the little Black boy who acquired a chronic respiratory illness while growing up in Baltimore… I wish we had Ahmann's book back then… Written with empathy and backed by rigorous analysis, Futures after Progress is a revelation." —LAURENCE RALPH Chloe Ahmann, Futures after Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore. University of Chicago Press, 5/2/2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1696429782316-DSBY77VHNBVBGZ4WKOUM/panglaikwan.jpeg Work - "Well-executed... fruitful... rigorous... outstanding." —CHA: AN ASIAN LITERARY JOURNAL Pang Laikwan, One and All: The Logic of Chinese Sovereignty. Stanford University Press, 4/2/2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1696254888378-JXF0RC29HU2QQ6B140E7/manteby.jpg Work - "Lucidly written, one-of-a-kind" —Stefan Timmermans ""[W]ide-ranging. . . . [D]efensiveness can, of course, be frustrating for researchers. What The Interloper demonstrates is that it can also offer a vital tool for uncovering the very things people most want to keep hidden."—Matthew Reisz, TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION Michel Anteby, The Interloper: Lessons from Resistance in the Field. Princeton University Press, 4/9/2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1662140057513-RYHYO6JGFOABTS5JP895/image-asset.jpeg Work - “Unusually insightful... This book will challenge you.” —ADAM GRANT “Informed, thought-provoking.” — KIRKUS Brian Lowery, Selfless: The Social Creation of “You.” Harper, 3/28/23. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1630616801695-QDB7H421EAHU1FYOE21G/9780674987425-lg.jpeg Work - “An inspiring vision.” —KIRKUS (*) “A book for these times as we confront the fault lines in our democracy… a deeply provocative work .” —Alex Kotlowitz, author of THERE ARE NO CHILDREN HERE Felton Earls & Mary Carlson, Voice, Choice, and Action: The Potential of Young Citizens to Heal Democracy, Belknap Press, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1630616801217-UTD48A6IW0P25B68FLKN/18693718.jpeg Work - “A truly intoxicating read.” —DAILY BEAST “Higgins cracks open this astonishingly dangerous sport and captures the spectacular adrenaline surges it delivers… [a] riveting tale.” —WALL STREET JOURNAL Matt Higgins, Bird Dream: Adventures at the Extremes of Human Flight, Penguin Press, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1630616806524-JNGZUWAGCFG122K0HIJK/play-anything.jpeg Work - "Be sure to grab your copy!" —FORBES “Essential.” —LIBRARY JOURNAL (*) “Nothing short of brilliant.” –Jane McGonigal Ian Bogost, Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games, Basic Books, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1630616801151-1G5ZYFP1KZHYZNS92OLH/817xl99sqYL.jpeg Work - “Readers who enjoy learning the science behind medical theories will be fascinated.” ―BOOKLIST Nir Barzilai, Age Later: Health Span, Life Span, and the New Science of Longevity, St. Martin’s, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1630616801632-0V583EZH83VNVOHJIG8Q/9780465098576.jpeg Work - "Fascinating and very readable." —THE GUARDIAN "Informative... important.” —WALL STREET JOURNAL Steven Hatch, Snowball in a Blizzard: A Physician's Notes on Uncertainty in Medicine, Basic Books, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1630616803026-N03CAYEZCY4STPEIXPYJ/habeasdata.jpeg Work - “Lively... chastening” —NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS “Essential, smart, and cogent." —Cory Doctorow Cyrus Farivar, Habeas Data: Privacy Vs. the Rise of Surveillance Tech, Melville House, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1630616804507-HG8AQEMC41380SASS25L/pid_28104.jpeg Work - “Thoughtful, readable." —Adam Grant, author of ORIGINALS "Unique… savvy and humanistic." —Sherry Turkle, author of ALONE TOGETHER "Marvelous." —Judy Wajcman Christine M. Beckman & Melissa Mazmanian, Dreams of the Overworked: Living, Working, & Parenting in the Digital Age, Stanford University Press, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1678111607255-XWN46TYT0LRKCSHD43E5/moraltribes.jpeg Work - “Surprising and remarkable.” —BOSTON GLOBE “A rich, sprawling book.” —THE ATLANTIC “Superb.” —Robert M. Sapolsky, WALL STREET JOURNAL Joshua Greene, Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them, Penguin Press, 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1630616805883-AD34L186FDWAZO13YY0V/reiss.jpeg Work - “Liberating… pops with insight... eye-opening.” –NEW YORK TIMES One of NEW YORK MAGAZINE’s “15 Books That Will Nurture Your Nerdier Side” Benjamin Reiss, Wild Nights: How Taming Sleep Created Our Restless World, Basic Books, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1630616806760-YYPV4BH9JQR7KLRYOTKR/secular-life.jpeg Work - “A humane and sensible guide.” —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW A Best Book of 2014, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY: "Groundbreaking… persuasive and comprehensive." Phil Zuckerman, Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions, Penguin Press, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1630616800596-E2U5IR75TR6XGUZZBKBS/41-0kZnkUqS._SX331_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg Work - "Always entertaining and frequently insightful, FLUKE is never less than thought-provoking." —WALL STREET JOURNAL Joseph Mazur, Fluke: The Math and Myth of Coincidence, Basic Books, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1630616802573-T0G3CQXWQ1838YQ9D5KU/9780691211732.jpeg Work - "Brilliant and pathbreaking." —Rob Reich Chiara Cordelli, The Privatized State, Princeton University Press, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1630616811589-D7W5K8XMXD4D56O76JVI/verhofstadt.jpeg Work - “Compelling... One of the hidden charms of the book, at least for the American reader, is that Mr. Verhofstadt implores Europe to emulate the U.S. in practically everything."” ―WALL STREET JOURNAL "One of the best and most succinct accounts of the EU's negotiating position [regarding Brexit]."―NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS Guy Verhofstadt, Europe's Last Chance: Why the European States Must Form a More Perfect Union, Basic Books, 2017. https://www.ben-platt.com/contact-ben daily 0.75 2025-06-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1630616397683-X6R5AFQXMUH15TQ7BZO5/what-is-and-what-can-be.jpeg Contact https://www.ben-platt.com/about-ben daily 0.75 2026-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5875075bff7c50070a349155/1630616222903-OUK60RNUGFZII9IJ7NG4/Ben+Platt_EDITOR_2019.jpeg About