Nonfiction Against the End of the World: An Apocalypse Reading List

Nonfiction Against the End of the World: An Apocalypse Reading List

Martha Park Recommends Mark O’Connell, Emily Raboteau, Jeff Sharlet and More

By Martha Park | May 23, 2025

What I Learned at My First Tree-Climbing Workshop

What I Learned at My First Tree-Climbing Workshop

Marguerite Holloway on Why We Should All Be Paying More Attention to Trees

By Marguerite Holloway | May 13, 2025

From MLMs to Nuclear War: <br>10 Great Nonfiction Books to Read in May

From MLMs to Nuclear War:
10 Great Nonfiction Books to Read in May

Featuring Work by Bridget Read, Amanda Hess, Robert Macfarlane, and More

By Literary Hub | May 2, 2025

Judy Blume on Radical Honesty

Judy Blume on Radical Honesty

live at the 2024 Sun Vally Writers' Conference

By Sun Valley Writers' Conference | April 11, 2025

Our Superfunds, Ourselves: Inside America’s Polluted Urban Ruins

Our Superfunds, Ourselves: Inside America’s Polluted Urban Ruins

Ariel Courage Explores a Systematic Legacy of Environmental Contamination and Neglect in the United States

By Ariel Courage | April 10, 2025

From the Nightmares of the Third Reich to Elon Musk: 10 Nonfiction Books to Read in April

From the Nightmares of the Third Reich to Elon Musk: 10 Nonfiction Books to Read in April

Featuring Work by Faiz Siddiqui, Heather Christle, Ada Limón, and More

By Literary Hub | March 31, 2025

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Why We Fear Real-Life Dystopia but Love Dystopian Fiction

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The Best Story Collection About California Wildfires Isn’t a Book—It’s a Brand-New Record 

The Best Story Collection About California Wildfires Isn’t a Book—It’s a Brand-New Record 

Rebecca Worby on Will Stratton’s “Points of Origin”

By Rebecca Worby | March 7, 2025

Dennis Lehane: Confessions of a Novelist Turned TV Showrunner

Dennis Lehane: Confessions of a Novelist Turned TV Showrunner

live at the 2024 Sun Vally Writers' Conference

By Sun Valley Writers' Conference | March 6, 2025

How the San Francisco Rare Book Fair Became a Refuge from the LA Wildfires

How the San Francisco Rare Book Fair Became a Refuge from the LA Wildfires

Julie Zigoris on the Resilience of Booksellers

By Julie Zigoris | March 5, 2025

A Small Press Book We Love: </br><em>Braiding Sweetgrass</em> by Robin Wall Kimmerer

A Small Press Book We Love:
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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WG Sebald’s <em>Rings of Saturn</em> Might Be the Perfect Climate Change Novel

WG Sebald’s Rings of Saturn Might Be the Perfect Climate Change Novel

Madeleine Watts’s on the Prescient Genius of a Hard-to-Categorize Novel

By Madeleine Watts | February 20, 2025

Lauren Markham on the Use and Limitations of Language to Describe Disaster

Lauren Markham on the Use and Limitations of Language to Describe Disaster

Sarah Viren Talks to the Author of “Immemorial”

By Sarah Viren | February 7, 2025

Humanity’s Claustrophobia: How Technology and Globalization Created a World in Crisis

Humanity’s Claustrophobia: How Technology and Globalization Created a World in Crisis

Robert D. Kaplan Reflects on Globalization’s Shifting Definitions in the Age of Social Media

By Robert D. Kaplan | January 29, 2025

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