The Best New Nonfiction to Read This November

The Best New Nonfiction to Read This November

From Ski Bums to Jazz Age Madams to Postwar Bohemians

By Literary Hub | November 1, 2021

Whither the Plain Female Protagonist? On “Great Beauty” in Literature

Whither the Plain Female Protagonist? On “Great Beauty” in Literature

Lucinda Rosenfeld Has Some Questions

By Lucinda Rosenfeld | November 1, 2021

Paul Auster on One of the Most Astonishing War Stories in American Literature

Paul Auster on One of the Most Astonishing War Stories in American Literature

Considering the Dark Horrors of Stephen Crane’s “An Episode of War”

By Paul Auster | November 1, 2021

How I Learned to Let Form Do the Work

How I Learned to Let Form Do the Work

Muriel Barbery on Writing About Kyōto

By Muriel Barbery | November 1, 2021

Teenage Activist Dara McAnulty on the Necessity of Joy

Teenage Activist Dara McAnulty on the Necessity of Joy

This Week From the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | November 1, 2021

How Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Jane Addams Helped Launch the Progressive Party

How Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Jane Addams Helped Launch the Progressive Party

Neil Lanctot on the Fervor of the Presidential Campaign of 1912

By Neil Lanctot | November 1, 2021

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Tana French on James Baldwin, Watership Down, and Hating Hawthorne

By Book Marks | November 1, 2021

“The King of Poets.” On Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal

By History of Literature | November 1, 2021

On Being No One’s Mother

By Teresa K. Miller | November 1, 2021

“Opening the Hive”

“Opening the Hive”

A Poem by Amanda Moore

By Amanda Moore | November 1, 2021

“Nobody’s Free Until Everbody’s Free.” Keisha N. Blain on Lou Hamer’s Work and Life

“Nobody’s Free Until Everbody’s Free.” Keisha N. Blain on Lou Hamer’s Work and Life

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | November 1, 2021

Bill Burnett on Transforming Your Work Life

Bill Burnett on Transforming Your Work Life

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 1, 2021

Peter T. Coleman on Life Beyond Trivial Divisions

Peter T. Coleman on Life Beyond Trivial Divisions

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 1, 2021

<em>Matrix</em> by Lauren Groff, Read by Adjoa Andoh

Matrix by Lauren Groff, Read by Adjoa Andoh

A Resonant Narration of a National Book Award Finalist

By Behind the Mic | November 1, 2021

Samantha Rose Hill on the Real Hannah Arendt

Samantha Rose Hill on the Real Hannah Arendt

In conversation with Paul Holdengräber

By The Virtual Book Channel | November 1, 2021

Pamela Paul on the Internet As Both Lifeline and Reflection of What We’ve Lost

Pamela Paul on the Internet As Both Lifeline and Reflection of What We’ve Lost

“It has opened up the world to us, but it has also made that world feel small.”

By Pamela Paul | October 29, 2021

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