Here are the Finalists for the 2020
L.A. Times Book Prizes
The Los Angeles Times — March 2, 2021 The LA Times Book Awards Finalists Have A Lot To Say About Justice
Witness LA — March 3, 2021 ‘The Madness of Incarceration’:
The Corrosive Effect of U.S. Jails and Prisons
The Crime Report — September 21, 2020 Where the Sick Get Sicker and the Sane Are Driven Mad: Behind Bars
The New York Times — July 21, 2020 Fresh Air: America's 'Extremely Punitive' Prisons Make Mental Illness Worse
NPR — July 16, 2020 The Madness of Prison
Michigan Alumnus Magazine — July, 2020 Books to Watch For
The New York Times — June 24, 2020 Books to Read in July
Time Magazine — June 30, 2020 Starred Review
Kirkus Reviews — April 13, 2020 A Psychiatrist’s Search for Resilience
by Ann Jurecic and Daniel Marchalik
The Lancet — April 22, 2017 Caring for a Mind in Crisis
by Pauline W. Chen, M.D.
The New York Times — September 12, 2013 A Piercing Portrait of Psychiatry
by Meehan Crist
The Los Angeles Times — July 28, 2013 Watching the Waves Roll In
by Megan Labrise
Kirkus — August 5, 2013 How Well Do We Really Understand Mental Illness?
by Hope Reese
The Atlantic — August 5, 2013 Is Psychiatry Stumped by Mental Illness?
by Matthew Tiffany
The Daily Beast — August 10, 2013 Filling the Void
by Arjune Rama, MD
Psychiatric Times — August 27, 2013 Books to Watch Out For
The New Yorker — August 2, 2013 Imperfect Trust
by Peter Kramer
Brown Alumni Magazine — July/August, 2013 Feeling the Burn
Publishers Weekly — May 13, 2013 Love and Human Remains
by Mary Roach
The New York Times — June 24, 2007 Anatomy of an Education
by Rachel Hartigan Shea
The Washington Post — July 17, 2007 Grace Anatomy
by Rafael Campo
The Los Angeles Times — June 24, 2007 Dissecting the Medical Life
by Beth Schwartzapfel
The Providence Journal — July 1, 2007 Starred Review
Publishers Weekly — April 2, 2007