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29 Works of Nonfiction You Need to Read This Summer

29 Works of Nonfiction You Need to Read This Summer

Part Three of Lit Hub's Summer Preview

By Emily Temple | June 8, 2022

James Patterson Remembers the Time James Baldwin Fought Norman Mailer

James Patterson Remembers the Time James Baldwin Fought Norman Mailer

“They were arguing loudly, fists clenched, looking like they were ready to rumble.”

By James Patterson | June 8, 2022

Summer Vacations Are a 19th-Century Invention of the Rich

Summer Vacations Are a 19th-Century Invention of the Rich

Charles McGrath on the Ritualizing of Idleness

By Charles McGrath | June 8, 2022

How Jazz Fueled a Nationwide Dance Craze—and Made Its Way to Paris

How Jazz Fueled a Nationwide Dance Craze—and Made Its Way to Paris

Stuart Isacoff on the Music That Captured the Country

By Stuart Isacoff | June 8, 2022

Why Geography Explains Everything From Brexit to Cuba to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Why Geography Explains Everything From Brexit to Cuba to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Ian Morris in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | June 8, 2022

Why Watergate Is Intimately Bound Up With the CIA’s Role in the JFK Assassination

Why Watergate Is Intimately Bound Up With the CIA’s Role in the JFK Assassination

Jefferson Morley in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | June 8, 2022

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What the Ancient Greeks Thought They Understood About Blood

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Questioning the Borders of Nonfiction to Tell the Story of an Exceptional Life

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Lars Horn on the Intimate History Between Skin and Ink

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Making Meat Jun, Facing History: Flattening Korean Tradition in Hawaiʻi

Making Meat Jun, Facing History: Flattening Korean Tradition in Hawaiʻi

Joseph Han on the Militarized History Behind a Favorite Food

By Joseph Han | June 6, 2022

Panoramic Panels: On the Power and Potential of Graphic Novels to Convey a Bygone New York

Panoramic Panels: On the Power and Potential of Graphic Novels to Convey a Bygone New York

A Conversation Between Mark Alan Stamaty, David Hajdu, and John Carey

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Why Walt Whitman Wrote <em>Leaves of Grass</em>

Why Walt Whitman Wrote Leaves of Grass

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

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How the 300-Year-Old Cuba-America Relationship Could Have Been Written By a Latin American Novelist

How the 300-Year-Old Cuba-America Relationship Could Have Been Written By a Latin American Novelist

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On the Dangers of Greatness: A Conversation with Svetlana Alexievich

On the Dangers of Greatness: A Conversation with Svetlana Alexievich

“We simply have to overcome this threat.”

By José Vergara | June 3, 2022

How <em>Hacks</em> Captures the Disconnect Between Two Generations of Feminism

How Hacks Captures the Disconnect Between Two Generations of Feminism

Alison B. Hart on the Sophomore Season of HBO Max’s Biting Comedy

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What an Archive of Testimonials Tells Us About Abortion Before <em>Roe</em>

What an Archive of Testimonials Tells Us About Abortion Before Roe

Rosa Campbell on the Association to Repeal Abortion Laws

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