Are We Entering a New Golden Age of Biography?

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Read the Winners of <em>American Short Fiction’</em>s 2025 Insider Prize

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Here’s the longlist for the 2025 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

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How We Can Improve Our Lives by Going Outside

How We Can Improve Our Lives by Going Outside

Marc Berman on the Physical and Mental Healing Properties of Nature

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From Michael Douglas to Bivalve Memoirs: 10 Great Nonfiction Books to Read in June

From Michael Douglas to Bivalve Memoirs: 10 Great Nonfiction Books to Read in June

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Here are the 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners.

Here are the 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners.

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Paul Lisicky on Joni Mitchell, Anti-Memoirs, and How Songwriting Influences His Nonfiction

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January’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

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Lit Hub’s 50 Noteworthy Nonfiction Books of 2024

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Anthony Bourdain on the Life and Legacy of a Truly Infamous Cook: Typhoid Mary

Anthony Bourdain on the Life and Legacy of a Truly Infamous Cook: Typhoid Mary

“Mary Mallon was a cook. And her story, first and foremost, is the story of a cook.”

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