The Monsters We Make: Stories of Violence and Ourselves

“A provoking, moving, and original book that has stuck with me long since I turned its last page.” —Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts

Criminal profiling—the delicate art of collecting and deciphering the psychological “fingerprints” of the monsters among us—holds an almost mythological status in pop culture. But what exactly is it, does it work, and why is the American publi...