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

Imagine America as a “Parent Nation”: Utopian Nonsense or Realizable Possibility?

Imagine America as a “Parent Nation”: Utopian Nonsense or Realizable Possibility?

Dana Suskind in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | June 7, 2022

What the Ancient Greeks <em>Thought</em> They Understood About Blood

What the Ancient Greeks Thought They Understood About Blood

Dr. Dhun Sethna on Homer, Hippocrates, and the Vascular System

By Dr. Dhun Sethna | June 7, 2022

A 17th-century book about the existence of aliens has been found in England.

A 17th-century book about the existence of aliens has been found in England.

By Jonny Diamond | May 20, 2022

How Growing Up In the Digital Age Impacts Young Minds

How Growing Up In the Digital Age Impacts Young Minds

Carl D. Marci on the Pitfalls of Plugged-In Children

By Carl D. Marci | May 19, 2022

How Anxiety Evolved Through the Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe

How Anxiety Evolved Through the Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe

“To many in the Western world, the fact that the mind was free but separate from the heavenly soul was unbearable.”

By Tracy Dennis-Tiwary | May 18, 2022

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Finally Some Good News: Why We Might All Be Altruistic Creatures

By Keen On | May 12, 2022

How Math Often Distorts Our Thinking

By Keen On | May 12, 2022

From Pandemics to Nuclear Power: Why People Why People Take the Risks They Do

By Vaclav Smil | May 11, 2022

Carlo Rovelli on How Literary Greats Find Inspiration in Scientific Rationality

Carlo Rovelli on How Literary Greats Find Inspiration in Scientific Rationality

Considering the Intersections of Literature and Science

By Carlo Rovelli | May 10, 2022

Revisiting the Infamous Hill Case in an Era of (More) UFO News and Government Secrets

Revisiting the Infamous Hill Case in an Era of (More) UFO News and Government Secrets

Nick Ripatrazone on the Reissue of John G. Fuller's The Interrupted Journey

By Nick Ripatrazone | May 10, 2022

What William Blake Might Tell Us About Our Transhuman Future

What William Blake Might Tell Us About Our Transhuman Future

John Higgs in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | May 4, 2022

How to Nurture the Philosopher in All Our Kids

How to Nurture the Philosopher in All Our Kids

Scott Hershovitz in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | May 4, 2022

What Animals Can Show Us About More Meaningfully Encountering the Wider World

What Animals Can Show Us About More Meaningfully Encountering the Wider World

Sy Montgomery on the Lessons of the Natural World

By Sy Montgomery | May 2, 2022

Robin Wall Kimmerer on What Mosses Can Teach Us About Persisting Amid Climate Change

Robin Wall Kimmerer on What Mosses Can Teach Us About Persisting Amid Climate Change

Taking the Long View of Earth on Emergence Magazine

By Emergence Magazine | May 2, 2022

How to Write a Literary Memoir About Neurodivergency

How to Write a Literary Memoir About Neurodivergency

Rebecca Schiller in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | April 29, 2022

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