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February’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction
Featuring New Titles by Leslie Jamison, Sloane Crosley, Lucy Sante, and More
The Art of the Mini Sales Pitch: How to Subtitle Your Book So People Will Read It
Tajja Isen on Balancing the Demands of Marketing With Artistic Vision
February’s Best Reviewed Fiction
Featuring New Titles by Tommy Orange, Francis Spufford, Kelly Link, and More
Adoption, Abortion, Autonomy: On the Literature of Reproductive Justice
Gretchen Sisson Recommends Jessamine Chan, Ann Fessler, Dorothy Roberts, and More
How Richard Wright’s Native Son Eventually Made It to the Big Screen
Charlene Regester on the Fraught Relationship Between Early Black Writers and the American Film Industry
Rachel Bitecofer on Democratic Strategies to Counter Republicans in the 2024 Election
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
Literature’s Lonely Hunter: On the “Sad, Happy Life” of Carson McCullers
Mary V. Dearborn Remembers an American Literary Champion of the Outsider
Phillipa Gregory on How the Norman Invasion Brought Patriarchy to England
“There are more penises than English women in the Bayeux Tapestry.”
Uncovering the Incredible Story of a Romance Between Two Prisoners in Auschwitz
Keren Blankfeld on Researching a Gripping Love Story and the Challenges of Writing About Someone Who Isn't There
Sororal Death and Sad, Sexy Icons: Emmeline Clein on Eating Disorder Memoirs and the Contagion of Identification
“For all the girls who weren’t wrong and all the girls who were.”
A Vanishing World: On Europe’s Disappearing Peasantry
Patrick Joyce Explores the Social and Cultural Transformation of Rural Life
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