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Ten Great Nonfiction Titles to Read in June

Ten Great Nonfiction Titles to Read in June

From Natural Histories of American Megafauna to Domestic Memoirs of Parenting While Trans, This Month Has Something For Everyone

By Literary Hub | June 2, 2026

Alone on a Mountain in Wyoming Far From Home and Looking for Answers

Alone on a Mountain in Wyoming Far From Home and Looking for Answers

Alexandra Oliva Goes the Extra Mile to Research the Science in Her Novel, The Radiant Dark

By Alexandra Oliva | June 1, 2026

How Medieval Doctors, Christian and Muslim, Treated the Black Death

How Medieval Doctors, Christian and Muslim, Treated the Black Death

Thomas Asbridge Considers the Influence of Religious Tradition on Medical Practice in the Middle Ages

By Thomas Asbridge | May 27, 2026

How Bees Came to the United States and Changed Our Landscape

How Bees Came to the United States and Changed Our Landscape

Jennie Durant Explores the History of Beekeeping and Its Impact on American Agriculture

By Jennie Durant | May 27, 2026

Is Alien Life Hiding in Plain Sight, Right Here in Our Solar System?

Is Alien Life Hiding in Plain Sight, Right Here in Our Solar System?

Dr. Sarah Alam Malik Considers the Prospect of Planetary Worlds Beyond Earth

By Sarah Alam Malik | May 22, 2026

Our Hormones Make Us Who We Are

Our Hormones Make Us Who We Are

Dr. Saira Hameed on the Endocrinologist as Detective

By Dr. Saira Hameed | May 20, 2026

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How This is Your Brain on Music Transformed Neuroscience

By Elizabeth Margulis | May 20, 2026

A Complex Yet Crucial Chemical: Exposing Myths About Dopamine

By Masud Husain | May 13, 2026

Is It Even Real? On the Conflation of Money and Things

By J. W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev | May 13, 2026

Thinking Inside the Box: How Constraints Can Make Us More Creative

Thinking Inside the Box: How Constraints Can Make Us More Creative

“Constraints shut down many possibilities, but stimulate more varied and novel exploration of those that remain.”

By David Epstein | May 6, 2026

Here’s what’s making us happy <em> this </em> week.

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By Brittany Allen | May 1, 2026

Ten Great Nonfiction Titles to Read in May

Ten Great Nonfiction Titles to Read in May

Including Books by Siri Hustvedt, Zayd Ayers Dohrn, Todd Smith, and More

By Literary Hub | April 30, 2026

How <em>Amazing Stories</em> Served as the Blueprint for American Science Fiction

How Amazing Stories Served as the Blueprint for American Science Fiction

Ed Simon Goes Back to When the Past was the Future

By Ed Simon | April 10, 2026

On the 1966 Poem That Warns of Bio-Acoustic Die-Off and the Destruction of Our Soundscapes

On the 1966 Poem That Warns of Bio-Acoustic Die-Off and the Destruction of Our Soundscapes

David Farrier Revisits Basil Bunting’s Classic, “Briggflatts”

By David Farrier | April 9, 2026

Where Physics Meets Poetry: On Language and the Power of Metaphor

Where Physics Meets Poetry: On Language and the Power of Metaphor

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein Considers Literary and Scientific Ways of Interpreting the World We Live In

By Chanda Prescod-Weinstein | April 7, 2026

How World War I Created the Army Olive Green We Know Today

How World War I Created the Army Olive Green We Know Today

Kory Stamper on the Wartime Development of the Dyestuff Industry in the United States

By Kory Stamper | April 2, 2026

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