Anne Helen Petersen Books in Order

Anne Helen Petersen revisits controversies involving stars from Hollywood's golden age. Examining celebrity stories alongside studio publicity and public expectations, she explores how images were manufactured, reputations threatened, and scandal managed within the entertainment business.

Anne Helen Petersen examines famous women labeled excessive or unacceptable, including Serena Williams, Kim Kardashian, and Hillary Clinton. Their public treatment reveals cultural expectations about femininity and the admiration and hostility provoked by women who challenge them.

Through interviews with millennials, Anne Helen Petersen explores personal experiences of chronic exhaustion. This audio project examines how pressure to optimize work, leisure, and self-care shapes everyday life, connecting individual stories with the culture behind burnout.

Anne Helen Petersen traces millennial burnout through economic insecurity, workplace expectations, parenting, and digital pressures. Combining interviews, research, and personal experience, she examines why persistent exhaustion extends beyond employment and becomes embedded in ordinary daily life.

Anne Helen Petersen and Charlie Warzel investigate how remote work could reshape the relationship between jobs and personal lives. Interviews with workers and managers examine flexibility, trust, fairness, and the changes needed beyond simply moving meetings online.