Society of Fellows alumnus Brian Goldstone's (2012–2015) book There Is No Place for Us has been named one of the five best non-fiction books of 2025 by The New York Times and The Atlantic.

The New York Times writes:

With uncommon precision, tenacity, and grace, Goldstone, an anthropologist turned journalist, casts a shocking spotlight on the “working homeless,” a term that should be an oxymoron but which in America defines hundreds of thousands of people. Following five Atlanta families for whom home is a car, a relative’s couch or a squalid room in an extended stay hotel — often some rotating combination of all three — his book gives intimate human shape to a population uncounted by the government and largely invisible to the public, one that, owing to soaring rents, paltry wages and misguided urban policy, is barely surviving even with a paycheck. Read our review.

The Atlantic writes:

Goldstone profiles five Atlanta families who are members of the “working homeless”—people living not on the street or in a shelter, but temporarily with friends or family, in cars, or in decrepit or dangerous extended-stay hotels. His reporting demonstrates how hard it is for many to escape this situation: Several of his subjects have evictions on their records, which cause some potential landlords to reject them even if they have the money for rent. One subject is elated to receive a Section 8 housing voucher, only to encounter apartment-building managers who won’t accept it, or claim to have no vacancies. Another woman takes her kids to see a beautiful house that seems too good to be true—and nearly sends more than $1,100 to a scammer who preys on renters in dismal straits. How did these Kafkaesque scenarios become so common? Rents have outpaced wages, Goldstone explains, and Atlanta is now a city where someone with a full-time job (or, hypothetically, even two or three) may not be able to afford a place to live. Reading this book can be an intense experience. But it makes visible a large population—possibly millions of people, by the author’s estimate—who might otherwise remain out of sight.