nonfiction In “What Happened to Millennials,” Charlie Wells celebrates his anxious, unhappy, successful, pop-culture-obsessed, middle-aged, cringey cohort. Credit...Tony Cenicola/The New York Times By Noreen Malone Noreen Malone is a Sunday Business editor at The Times. Sept. 17, 2025, 5:02 a.m. ET WHAT HAPPENED TO MILLENNIALS: In Defense of a Generation, by Charlie Wells “What Happened to Millennials,” by Charlie Wells, is a title that might have been expected to end in a question mark.