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May's Best Reviewed Nonfiction

May's Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring Ron Chernow, Robert Macfarlane, Yiyun Li, and More

By Book Marks | May 30, 2025

Paul Elie on Art, Faith, and Sex in 1980s America—and the New Pope

Paul Elie on Art, Faith, and Sex in 1980s America—and the New Pope

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 29, 2025

Rebecca Solnit on Her Most Beloved Objects

Rebecca Solnit on Her Most Beloved Objects

A Field Guide to the Artifacts from "A Field Guide to Getting Lost"

By Rebecca Solnit | May 29, 2025

Death, Desire, and the Poetics of the Automobile

Death, Desire, and the Poetics of the Automobile

Rosie Stockton Explores the Tension Between Our Obsession With Freedom and the Constraints of Car-Centric Capitalism

By Rosie Stockton | May 29, 2025

Finding Your Way Into Writing Fiction as J.R.R. Tolkien's Grandson

Finding Your Way Into Writing Fiction as J.R.R. Tolkien's Grandson

Simon Tolkien on the Double-Edged Sword of a Mighty Literary Inheritance

By Simon Tolkien | May 29, 2025

My Workshop Friend Stole the Plot for a Story I Never Got Around to Writing: Am I the Asshole?

My Workshop Friend Stole the Plot for a Story I Never Got Around to Writing: Am I the Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | May 29, 2025

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  • Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
  • Bad Bad Girl
  • The Ten Year Affair
  • Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
  • Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
  • Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

The Likability Trap: Why We Need More "Nasty" Female Protagonists

By Laura Leffler | May 29, 2025

On Morals, Ethics, and Writing a Novel Inspired by a Story Ripped-From-the-Headlines

By Darrow Farr | May 29, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks | May 29, 2025

Meet the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize finalists.

Meet the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize finalists.

By Literary Hub | May 28, 2025

Eight Books that Feature Wine in All Its Facets (and Flavor Notes)

Eight Books that Feature Wine in All Its Facets (and Flavor Notes)

Rochelle Dowden-Lord Recommends Peter Hellman, Jilly Cooper, Bianca Bosker, and More

By Rochelle Dowden-Lord | May 28, 2025

How Curtis Sittenfeld's

How Curtis Sittenfeld's "American Wife" Imbues Even Its Ugliest Characters with Nuance

Jessica Stanley on Political Fiction, Conservative Characters, and Curiosity

By Jessica Stanley | May 28, 2025

Writing the Wind: Capturing the Sensation of Life's Many Storms

Writing the Wind: Capturing the Sensation of Life's Many Storms

"All storms are alike yet each speaks to us in its particularity."

By Catherine Bush | May 28, 2025

One great short story to read today: Breece D’J Pancake’s “Time and Again”

One great short story to read today: Breece D’J Pancake’s “Time and Again”

By Jonny Diamond | May 27, 2025

20 Years of <em>Getting Lost</em>: Rebecca Solnit on the Creative Process of Finding Yourself

20 Years of Getting Lost: Rebecca Solnit on the Creative Process of Finding Yourself

“All of us are continually gathering ideas, stories, glimpses, encounters that we can sift through to find constellations of meaning."

By Rebecca Solnit | May 27, 2025

Crafting from of a Creator's Rib: Nicola Dinan on Writing Characters Based on Herself

Crafting from of a Creator's Rib: Nicola Dinan on Writing Characters Based on Herself

The Author of "Disappoint Me" Reflects on Readers Seeing Her and Themselves in Fiction's Mirror

By Nicola Dinan | May 27, 2025

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