Jimmy "Rent Is Too Damn High" McMillan: Notable Titles of Poverty and Living Poor

by Mary Childers

Childers’s very specific portrait of a time and place makes for a valuable piece of social history, as well as a potent... Full review >

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by Lisa Dodson

Important, encouraging reporting. Full review >

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by Barbara Ehrenreich

Sharp, empathetic, astute, Ehrenreich speaks loudly and eloquently for a group of workers who are often too tired and too... Full review >

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by Allison Glock

A memoir as elemental as its subject: pulsing, fetching, leaving a strong afterglow. (20 photos) Full review >

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by Jennifer Gonnerman

Powerful stuff, grievously well rendered: Bartlett seems to be a remarkable survivor. Full review >

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by Katherine S. Newman and Victor Ten Chen

The many fragmented individual stories tend to blur together, but the message comes through loud and clear. Full review >

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by Stephen Pimpare

A useful counter against those who blame the poor for their bad luck. Full review >

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by Gary Rivlin

A wildly frustrating and timely book appropriate for most readers. Full review >

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by David K. Shipler

A sobering work of investigation, as incisive—and necessary—as kindred reports by Michael Harrington, Jacob Riis, and... Full review >

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by Felicia C. Sullivan

Sullivan’s bracing, pared-to-the-bone prose evokes compassion by being impressively free of the narcissistic self-worship... Full review >

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by William T. Vollmann

Snapshots of people no one wants to think about, written with great candor by someone unafraid to reveal his own fears and... Full review >

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by Jeannette Walls

A pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps, thoroughly American story. Full review >

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by Kath Weston

A gritty portrait of hard-pressed people moving through some of the least attractive real estate in America. Full review >

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by Sherman Alexie & illustrated by Ellen Forney

Junior’s keen cartoons sprinkle the pages as his fluid narration deftly mingles raw feeling with funny, sardonic insight. Full review >

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by e.E. Carlton-Trujillo

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