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10 Great Nonfiction Titles to Read This August

10 Great Nonfiction Titles to Read This August

Featuring Books by Dave Zirin, Claudia Rankine, Kathryn Jezer-Morton, and More

By Literary Hub | August 5, 2026

How Harlem and Jamaica Inspired the Music of Harry Belafonte

How Harlem and Jamaica Inspired the Music of Harry Belafonte

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro on the Artistic Influence of Black Diasporic Life, From New York to the Caribbean

By Joshua Jelly-Schapiro | August 5, 2026

The Tragedy of Loving Sylvia Plath

The Tragedy of Loving Sylvia Plath

Sarai Walker on Obsession, Ownership, and Plath Worship

By Sarai Walker | July 29, 2026

On the Populist Parallels Between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump

On the Populist Parallels Between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump

Inside the 2016 Election, From Bernie Sanders’s Chief Strategist

By Tad Devine | July 28, 2026

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s Blue House in Coyoacán Was a Refuge for Leon Trotsky... Until It Wasn‘t

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s Blue House in Coyoacán Was a Refuge for Leon Trotsky... Until It Wasn‘t

H. Keith Melton and Nigel West on Trotsky and Kahlo‘s Simmering Affair Amidst Political Turmoil

By H. Keith Melton and Nigel West | July 28, 2026

A Dialogue With the Facts: On Writing Literary Biography in a Post-Truth Age

A Dialogue With the Facts: On Writing Literary Biography in a Post-Truth Age

Fiona Sampson Explores the Ways We Can Blend Reality With Fictionalization

By Fiona Sampson | July 20, 2026

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Who, Exactly, Were All Those Girls in Renoir’s Paintings?

By Catherine Ostler | July 17, 2026

What Writing About Bobby Kennedy Taught Me About Male Power

By Carson Markland | July 17, 2026

Finding Heroes of My Own in Three Unsung Women of America’s Great Outdoors

By Heather Hansman | July 15, 2026

A new Mary Oliver documentary captures the poet’s wild and precious life.

A new Mary Oliver documentary captures the poet’s wild and precious life.

By Brittany Allen | July 10, 2026

Restoring the Voice of Kathy Leissner Whitman, the Texas Tower Sniper’s First Victim

Restoring the Voice of Kathy Leissner Whitman, the Texas Tower Sniper’s First Victim

Jo Scott-Coe on Hierarchies of Victimization and the Stories That Go Missing in the Wake of Tragedy

By Jo Scott-Coe | July 10, 2026

Remembering Tom Stoppard: <br>A Night at the Theater

Remembering Tom Stoppard:
A Night at the Theater

Morgan Entrekin on the Small Kindnesses of a Literary Giant

By Morgan Entrekin | July 9, 2026

Today is Tom Stoppard Day<br> in the UK

Today is Tom Stoppard Day
in the UK

Celebrating the Life and Writing of a Literary Giant

By Brittany Allen | July 9, 2026

How Jane Austen Blew a Hole Through the Romance Genre She Created

How Jane Austen Blew a Hole Through the Romance Genre She Created

Catherine Cliff on Austen‘s Third Model of Spinsterhood: Being a Self-Made Woman

By Catherine Cliff | July 8, 2026

This Week in Literary History: Ernest Hemingway is Wounded on the Italian Front

This Week in Literary History: Ernest Hemingway is Wounded on the Italian Front

“When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you.”

By Literary Hub | July 6, 2026

Ten Great Nonfiction Titles to Read in July

Ten Great Nonfiction Titles to Read in July

Featuring Books by Cal Flyn, Eyal Weitzman, Michael Cunningham, and More

By Literary Hub | July 2, 2026

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