November’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

November’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring New Titles by Robert Darnton, Barbra Streisand, Paul Caruana Galizia, and More

By Book Marks | November 30, 2023

Horror for the Holidays! Or, Scary Novels To Read While Being Nice to Your Family

Horror for the Holidays! Or, Scary Novels To Read While Being Nice to Your Family

“Corruption of love and kindness is the real horror...” (So Just Eat Your Aunt’s Pie, Ok?)

By Erika Johansen | November 30, 2023

“Is That a First Edition of <em>The Iliad</em>?” Meet One of History’s Great Manuscript Forgers

“Is That a First Edition of The Iliad?” Meet One of History’s Great Manuscript Forgers

On Constantine Simonides, a Mysterious Stranger in the Cotswolds...

By Christopher de Hamel | November 30, 2023

Graffiti Gentrification: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on the Exploitation of Basquiat

Graffiti Gentrification: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on the Exploitation of Basquiat

Considering Boom for Real: The Late-Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat While Walking Through Baltimore

By Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | November 30, 2023

What Albert Camus’s <em>The Stranger</em> Says About Our Contemporary Anxieties

What Albert Camus’s The Stranger Says About Our Contemporary Anxieties

Kate Christensen on Finding Inspiration in the Existentialist Classic

By Kate Christensen | November 30, 2023

How Elvis Presley and Colonel Tom Parker Made Music History Together

How Elvis Presley and Colonel Tom Parker Made Music History Together

Greg McDonald and Marshall Terrill on the Fraught Yet Successful Partnership of Two Industry Titans

By Greg McDonald and Marshall Terrill | November 30, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Awake Awake
  • Etna
  • Triage
  • The Amateur
  • The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn
  • The Story of Your Life: How Social Media Shapes the Way We Experience Everything
  • The Cruelest Game: Chasing Greatness in Professional Tennis
  • The Ego Trip: Psychedelic Toads, a Trail of Deaths, and the Guru Who Peddled Transcendence
  • The Blue Flame

Heather Cox Richardson on the Complexities of American Democracy

By Just the Right Book | November 30, 2023

Timothy Schaffert on the Literary Parallels for the House GOP Clusterf*ck

By Fiction Non Fiction | November 30, 2023

Casey Plett On Community and Being Open To Strangers

By The Maris Review | November 30, 2023

Jarrett J. Krosoczka and AudioFile's 2023 Best Audio Originals

Jarrett J. Krosoczka and AudioFile's 2023 Best Audio Originals

In Conversation with Michele Cobb on Behind the Mic

By Behind the Mic | November 30, 2023

Year of the Rabbit: Why We’re Seeing So Many Bunnies on Books

Year of the Rabbit: Why We’re Seeing So Many Bunnies on Books

Celia Mattison on the Renaissance of an Age-Old Symbol of Feminine Power

By Celia Mattison | November 29, 2023

Muse as Medium: On the Women Pablo Picasso Remade in His Image

Muse as Medium: On the Women Pablo Picasso Remade in His Image

Mara Naselli Considers the Visceral Visual Violence of the Artist’s Oeuvre

By Mara Naselli | November 29, 2023

Meals and Memories: Sheila Squillante on Writing to Remember Her Father

Meals and Memories: Sheila Squillante on Writing to Remember Her Father

"I write because I want to continue my father, not contain him."

By Sheila Squillante | November 29, 2023

A Vicious Cycle: Jessica Strawser on Telling and Re-Telling Traumatic Stories

A Vicious Cycle: Jessica Strawser on Telling and Re-Telling Traumatic Stories

“It’s funny, how sometimes the things you know for sure can still surprise you.”

By Jessica Strawser | November 29, 2023

Beyond <em>Poor Things</em>: An Ode to Alasdair Gray’s Lesser-Known, Equally Deserving Books

Beyond Poor Things: An Ode to Alasdair Gray’s Lesser-Known, Equally Deserving Books

Including a Gargantuan Retelling of the History of English Literature and a Bowdlerization of The Divine Comedy

By Mazin Saleem | November 29, 2023

John Vaillant on Winning the 2023 Baillie Gifford Prize

John Vaillant on Winning the 2023 Baillie Gifford Prize

In conversation with Razie Iqbal on the Baillie Gifford Prize Podcast, Read Smart

By Read Smart | November 29, 2023

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