25 Nonfiction Books You Need to Read This Summer

25 Nonfiction Books You Need to Read This Summer

Because Novels Are Just Made-Up

By Literary Hub | May 25, 2023

How Women and Girls Struggle to Pursue Their Interest In Science

How Women and Girls Struggle to Pursue Their Interest In Science

Melissa L. Sevigny on the Need to Tell More Stories About Ordinary Female Scientists

By Melissa L. Sevigny | May 23, 2023

Looking Back at Earth From the Vantage of the Mars Space-Race

Looking Back at Earth From the Vantage of the Mars Space-Race

Matthew Shindell on Our Shifting Relationship With the Red Planet

By Matthew Shindell | May 18, 2023

“A Solid, Blue-Black World.” What William Beebe Found at the Bottom of the Ocean

“A Solid, Blue-Black World.” What William Beebe Found at the Bottom of the Ocean

Brad Fox on the History of Deep Sea Exploration

By Brad Fox | May 18, 2023

Ashlee Vance on the Historical Precedents, Environmental Risks, and Business Opportunities of Colonizing Space

Ashlee Vance on the Historical Precedents, Environmental Risks, and Business Opportunities of Colonizing Space

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 16, 2023

Steven Cohen’s Pragmatic Approach to Environmentally Sustainable Growth

Steven Cohen’s Pragmatic Approach to Environmentally Sustainable Growth

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 15, 2023

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Jeremy Sherman Wonders Why There Are So Many Assholes Around These Days

By Keen On | May 15, 2023

Why is Serious Nonfiction in the US Taken More Seriously Than in the UK?

By Sam Leith | May 12, 2023

This Eagle Would Eat Your Toddler If It Had The Chance

By Adam Hart | May 11, 2023

Neil Theise on Connection, Consciousness and Being

Neil Theise on Connection, Consciousness and Being

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 9, 2023

Being on the Reader’s Side: Jaime Green on Writing a Book About Science (with an MFA)

Being on the Reader’s Side: Jaime Green on Writing a Book About Science (with an MFA)

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | May 4, 2023

How Our Well-Being Is Inextricably Linked to That of Those Around Us

How Our Well-Being Is Inextricably Linked to That of Those Around Us

Sarah Rose Cavanagh on the Invisible Leashes that Connect Us All

By Sarah Rose Cavanagh | May 2, 2023

Daniel Siegel on Expanding Our Idea of the “Self” to Include Other People, Other Species and the Earth Itself

Daniel Siegel on Expanding Our Idea of the “Self” to Include Other People, Other Species and the Earth Itself

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | April 25, 2023

Peter Grinspoon, MD, Untangles the Truth About Marijuana

Peter Grinspoon, MD, Untangles the Truth About Marijuana

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | April 24, 2023

“But Where’s Its Anus?” On How We Imagine Alien Lifeforms

“But Where’s Its Anus?” On How We Imagine Alien Lifeforms

Jaime Green Considers Our Anthropomorphic Biases

By Jaime Green | April 18, 2023

The Patterns of Poetry: On the Mathematical and Poetic Value of Numbers

The Patterns of Poetry: On the Mathematical and Poetic Value of Numbers

Sarah Hart Explores the Intersection of Math and Literature

By Sarah Hart | April 12, 2023

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