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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

The Student Activists Campaigning For Public Education in Chile

The Student Activists Campaigning For Public Education in Chile

Meaghan Beatley on Chilean Student Politics

By Meaghan Beatley | August 4, 2026

An English professor in Florida was just fired for teaching an Ottessa Moshfegh story.

An English professor in Florida was just fired for teaching an Ottessa Moshfegh story.

By Brittany Allen | July 30, 2026

Preventing WWIII in Europe’s <br>New Cold War

Preventing WWIII in Europe’s
New Cold War

Hannah Lucinda Smith Considers the Pivotal Role of Small and Unrecognized States in Shaping Geopolitics

By Hannah Lucinda Smith | July 30, 2026

What Is the Difference Between Exile and Exiles?

What Is the Difference Between Exile and Exiles?

Roger Celestin on Writing About Not Being Able to Go Back Home

By Roger Celestin | July 30, 2026

Lupe Mendez on Texas Politics and the Killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo

Lupe Mendez on Texas Politics and the Killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and Jennifer Maritza McCauley on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | July 30, 2026

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What Happens When the War on Drugs Turns Into a Wellness Fad

By Kojo Koram | July 29, 2026

On the Populist Parallels Between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump

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

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

On Reckoning With the Literary World’s Unacknowledged Class System

On Reckoning With the Literary World’s Unacknowledged Class System

D/Annie Liontas, Sara Nović, Chet’la Sebree and Maria Adelmann Discuss Class, Access and Getting Through the Door

By D/Annie Liontas | July 27, 2026

Why Black Americans Need <br>Reparations Now

Why Black Americans Need
Reparations Now

“The true fight is for self-determination and restitution; anything less is unacceptable.”

By Edna Bonhomme | July 27, 2026

Christ’s Craft Store, Hobby Lobby, Wouldn’t Have Survived Its First Year Without the Godless Hippies

Christ’s Craft Store, Hobby Lobby, Wouldn’t Have Survived Its First Year Without the Godless Hippies

Michael Blanding on the Origins of a Box Store Behemoth

By Michael Blanding | July 24, 2026

The Queer Poetics in Writing About Past and Present Brazilian Politics

The Queer Poetics in Writing About Past and Present Brazilian Politics

Lara Norgaard on Translating Cris Judar’s They Marched Under the Sun

By Lara Norgaard | July 24, 2026

Penelope Speaks: Rebecca Solnit on the Western Literary Tradition of Silencing Women

Penelope Speaks: Rebecca Solnit on the Western Literary Tradition of Silencing Women

“Classical culture is a lot of things including, literally, rape culture.”

By Rebecca Solnit | July 23, 2026

For Marx, Capitalism Was Always Going to Destroy the Environment

For Marx, Capitalism Was Always Going to Destroy the Environment

Kōhei Saitō on the Myth of Free Market Solutions to Climate Change

By Kohei Saito | July 23, 2026

God, Sex, Porn, Art, and Aids: Revisiting the Culture Wars of the 1980s and 90s

God, Sex, Porn, Art, and Aids: Revisiting the Culture Wars of the 1980s and 90s

A Conversation With Isaac Butler and Rosa Campbell

By Isaac Butler and Rosa Campbell | July 23, 2026

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