Bruni, Frank. The Age of Grievance. Avid Reader. Apr. 2024. 224p. ISBN 9781668016435. $28. POL SCI

New York Times columnist Bruni (The Beauty of Dusk) considers how grievance culture has defined this era. He examines the fallout of a philosophy that sees the world as an endless cycle of blame and victimhood, and he offers questions and insights for a path out of the mire of outrage.

Garcia, Angela. The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City’s Anexos. Farrar. Apr. 2024. 272p. ISBN 9780374605780. $29. SOC SCI

Based on a decade of field research and her own family’s history, award-winning anthropologist Garcia’s first-of-its-kind examination of anexos (informal addiction-treatment centers that have spread across Mexico and into the U.S.) is both an ethnography and a memoir that considers issues of loss, hope, family, and the violence of the drug war. With a 75K-first copy printing.

Mattioli, Dana. The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest To Own the World and Remake Corporate Power. Little, Brown. Apr. 2024. 320p. ISBN 9780316269773. $30. BUS

Wall Street Journal reporter Mattioli was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on Amazon. Here she digs deep in an exposé of the company’s never-ending drive for power—which she argues has changed the global economy as well as the economy and culture of the U.S. With a 150K-first copy printing.

McMillan, Tracie. The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America. Holt. Apr. 2024. 464p. ISBN 9781250619426. $31.99. SOC SCI

Award-winning McMillan (The American Way of Eating) offers a mix of memoir and reporting as she studies three generations of her family and the sources of their wealth, broadening from there to consider five others, all of whom benefit from white privilege, which has, as she details, a cash value. With a 75K-first copy printing.

Minian, Ana Raquel. In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States. Viking. Apr. 2024. 384p. ISBN 9780593654255. $32. POL SCI

Historian at Stanford and Andrew Carnegie Fellow Minian (Undocumented Lives) offers a richly resourced history of immigrant detention, focusing on four migrants and their unfolding stories. She connects their experience to U.S. history and society, exploring issues of rights, race, and incarceration, as well as immigration.

Murgia, Madhumita. Code-Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI. Holt. Apr. 2024. 304p. ISBN 9781250867391. $29.99. SOC SCI

Tech correspondent for the Financial Times, where she leads AI coverage, Murgia uses a series of global stories to illustrate how AI is already infiltrating daily life, and the consequences, threats, and inequities stemming from a reliance on automated decision-making when humans give up—or deliberately cede—control to a machine. With a 60K-first copy printing.

Sellers, Bakari. The Moment: Thoughts on the Race Reckoning That Wasn’t and How We All Can Move Forward Now. Amistad: HarperCollins. Apr. 2024. 256p. ISBN 9780063085022. $29.99. SOC SCI

Politician, CNN political analyst, and best-selling author of My Vanishing Country, Sellers continues the conversation he started in that book, focusing upon Black lives in the U.S. and examining inequities across healthcare, education, and policing. With a 100K-first copy printing.

Suarez, Ray. We Are Home: Becoming American in the 21st Century; An Oral History. Little, Brown. Apr. 2024. 320p. ISBN 9780316353762. $30. SOC SCI

Former NPR and PBS correspondent Suarez spotlights new citizens, traveling the country to interview people who came to the U.S. from around the world. His portraits reveal individual stories while they also trace the history of immigration, the process of becoming a citizen, and the making of the nation.

We Refuse To Be Silent: Women’s Voices on Justice for Black Men. Broadleaf. Apr. 2024. 336p. ed. by Angela P. Dodson. ISBN 9781506491110. $29.99. SOC SCI

Elizabeth Alexander, Isabel Wilkerson, and more pen essays on the dangers Black men face living in the U.S., and the emotional impact on the Black women who love them. Editor Dodson is a former senior editor for the New York Times and a former executive editor of Black Issues Book Review.