Call it Peak Gift Book: For whatever reason (perhaps pandemic delays), 2023 has witnessed a major nonfiction groundswell of memoirs, biographies and cultural histories that are both substantial and a ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Nonfiction can too often taste like forced medicine. Where the most successful of these stories prevail ...

Sorry, but we’re about to make your reading pile for 2024 very big. From candid memoirs to provocative essays, little-told histories to behind-the-scenes accounts ...

The Baillie Gifford Prize celebrates the best works of nonfiction that's published in the English language in the U.K.

The past year was a marvelous one for those who read serious nonfiction. As has been my tradition, I present (in random order) a baker’s dozen of the best nonfiction of 2024, with an emphasis on books ...

The best nonfiction books of the year tackle undeniably difficult topics. Many are personal stories about surviving the unthinkable. Salman Rushdie describes the violent attack that nearly killed him.

A bookstore in Lisbon, Portugal. The past year was a marvelous one for those who read serious nonfiction. As has been my tradition, I present (in random order) a baker’s dozen of the best nonfiction ...