“Empire of Pain” was one of Washington Post’s 10 Best Books of 2021, won the Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction, was shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year, and was ...

In Keefe’s new book, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, the journalist tells the story of how the Sacklers came to be so rich, so influential, and, ultimately ...

This book is my Roman Empire (to borrow a trope ... s history and the mark they’ve left on the world, Keefe’s Empire of Pain is a damning indictment of family secrets and corporate greed ...

You first published your book Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America’s Opioid Epidemic, in 2003, but you rewrote it in 2018, correct? Yes. And now it’s out again just this ...

and headliner of the Boston Book Festival Patrick Radden Keefe. Keefe is a writer for the New Yorker and the author of several best-selling books, including “Empire of Pain” (2021) and “Say ...

For a detailed history of the Sackler family’s role in popularizing Valium and OxyContin, there’s Patrick Radden Keefe’s Empire of ... in the face of pain, in Virginia Woolf’s famous phrase, “language ...