A cultural analyst and political activist, Barbara Ehrenreich is arguably one of the most astute, acerbic and witty critics in the United States. She belongs to the generation of feminists who came to maturity in the 1960s as student dissidents, and...

Q&A AUTHOR, JOURNALIST, SOCIAL CRITIC Barbara Ehrenreich has written 18 books, including the bestseller Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. A Florida resident, her newest book is Dancing in the Streets; A History of Collective Joy. Are workers...

LITERATURE Barbara Ehrenreich at Busboys There's probably no better place in the city than Busboys and Poets to host author Barbara Ehrenreich, whose undercover explorations into the lives of Wal-Mart workers and others in the service industry -- and more recently, the major disappointments...

In three-way match-up polls taken in several states, Michael Bloomberg doesn't win. Sheldon Silver tells the Assmebly “it’s time” to accept Eliot Spitzer’s “olive branch.” Lt. Governor David Paterson is spending more than he’s making on his campaign, says Liz. According to an article...

Making Memories. I was invited to the preview because the publicist for the event had read my whining a few weeks ago on this very site about having to buy a second dress after realizing that the first one was more appropriate for a Third...

Below, Kellman offers a mixed review of Kipper's Game.

In the following excerpt, Fallows examines the correlation among culture, prosperity, and security and their place in Fear of Falling.

While praising Ehrenreich's writing, in the following review, McClay finds many flaws in the thesis of Fear of Falling.

The author doesn't think that Barbara Ehrenreich, the author of "Nickle and Dimed," is a good representation of the working poor. Ehrenreich is a journalist who posed as a working-class woman to write the book.