Fifteen years ago, Kathryn Stockett’s debut novel became a best seller, but was also heavily criticized for its portrayal of Black characters. Now, she has written second novel, “The Calamity ...

"The Help" centers around a young, privileged white woman named Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan (Emma Stone), who writes a book about the experiences of two black maids, Aibileen Clark (Viola Davis) and ...

In “The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health,” Dr. Rheeda Walker wants to undo the stigma associated with mental health ...

Any book can be a self-help book, depending on how it’s read. Political pamphlets, epic poems, and contemporary novels can all offer insight into how to live—or how not to.

The “book” is only 39 pages, but it is free, so while you might not get full Ricken philosophical immersion, this is still a very fun idea. Here’s what Apple Books says in its faux promo ...

The "big idea" behind Ricken's book is the "YouType," the kind of made-up psychological concept common to self-help books, pseudo science, and cults—think "love languages," the Myers-Briggs ...

As the genre has grown, so have its claims. One reason that self-help is so sneered at, says Oliver Burkeman, author of “Four Thousand Weeks”, a time-management book, is that there is a lot of ...