Slate BooksA roundup of recent books by Slate staff and contributors.

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Slate's The Explainer is Slate's latest collection of "Explainer" columns. Click here to read an excerpt.

Adam L. Penenberg, who writes the weekly "Technology" column for Slate, is the author of Tragic Indifference: One Man's Battle With the Auto Industry Over the Dangers of SUVs. Click here to read an excerpt of his book.

David Greenberg, who writes Slate's "History Lesson," is the author of Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image. Click here to read an excerpt of his book.

William Saletan, Slate's national correspondent, is the author of Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War. Click here to read an excerpt. He is also the author of Slate's Field Guide to the Candidates 2004. Click here to read an excerpt.

Blake Bailey, a Slate contributor, is the author of the biography A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates. Bailey writes a series for Slate called "My Year of Hurricanes," a collection of "Dispatches" chronicling his family's efforts to put their lives together again after Hurricane Katrina. Click here to read an excerpt of A Tragic Honesty.

Ann Hulbert, a Slate contributing editor who writes the "Sandbox" column, is the author of Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice About Children. Click here to read her columns and here to read an excerpt of her book.