Last year, I wrote about animal hoarding. In part, this was spurred by an animal hoarder I knew, the daughter of a friend. Her hoarding was not so extreme that the animals suffered. Still, I wondered ...

In Amanda Uhle’s recent book, Destroy This House (Summit Books, 2025), Uhle describes an interaction between her hoarder mother and nonhoarder father: “It was weird how Dad never complained about ...