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

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

Why India, and Not China or the US, Represents the Most Chilling Vision of Our High-Tech Dystopian Future

Why India, and Not China or the US, Represents the Most Chilling Vision of Our High-Tech Dystopian Future

Samit Basu in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | June 7, 2022

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

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

Levi Vonk on All God's Dangers and the Power of Collaborative Oral History

By Levi Vonk | June 6, 2022

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

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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

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TikTok Ascendant: Where Democracy Lives (and Dies) in the Age of Social Media

By Andrew Keen | 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

By Alison B. Hart | June 3, 2022

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

By Rosa Campbell | June 3, 2022

Paths of Dissent: American Veterans on Misguided Post-9/11 Wars

Paths of Dissent: American Veterans on Misguided Post-9/11 Wars

This Week on Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon

By Open Source | June 3, 2022

Why a Post-Trump America Remains Very Sick and How to Improve Its Health

Why a Post-Trump America Remains Very Sick and How to Improve Its Health

Peter Wehner in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | June 3, 2022

How Good Debate Can Save Democracy

How Good Debate Can Save Democracy

Bo Seo in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | June 3, 2022

Kim Kelly on How to Fix the Working Conditions in Book Publishing

Kim Kelly on How to Fix the Working Conditions in Book Publishing

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | June 2, 2022

“This is Such Bullshit.” Shelly Oria and Kristen Arnett on the Reproductive Rights Crisis

“This is Such Bullshit.” Shelly Oria and Kristen Arnett on the Reproductive Rights Crisis

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | June 2, 2022

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