Nonfiction

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

• Looking for Meaning — Alan Lightman Reimagines His Southern Home

  Alan Lightman’s new memoir makes memories less about “facts” than about how we process and continually reshuffle them.

  Julien CrockettApr 24, 2015

  • Nonfiction

• Progress of Stories

  The storied career of one of The New Yorker’s most prized journalists “cannot be evaluated in any ordinary way.”

  Thomas BerenatoApr 21, 2015

  • Nonfiction

• Murder, They Wrote

  How can you get your head around 297 homicides in Los Angeles in 2011, with pitifully low clearance rates for black-on-black murders?

  Priyanka KumarApr 20, 2015

  • Nonfiction

• Prayers to the Gods of Preservation, Cataloging, and Cross-referencing

  Monson's essays tucked into library books allow the author and his readers to toss off the rules and just play.

  Ryan TeitmanApr 19, 2015

  • Nonfiction

• A Dissident Writer in Modern America

  Has Renata Adler's genuine radicalism resulted in her being silenced?

  Matthew SpecktorApr 17, 2015

  • Nonfiction

• Strange News from Another Star

  North Korea is not the information black hole it’s so often made out to be.

  John FefferApr 10, 2015

  • Nonfiction

• Crowdsourcing Humiliation

  Jon Ronson says we're living in a renaissance of public shaming.

  Rob SharpApr 9, 2015

  • Nonfiction

• What Is New About the New American University?

  Will Michael Crow’s “New American University” help re-democratize the US or continue a trend of universities ratifying social inequality and wind up on a dust heap of halfway measures?

  Christopher NewfieldApr 5, 2015

  • Nonfiction

  • Remaking the University

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  On the Renaissance Career of Judith Kitchen: Four Assessments

  Gabriel Blackwell, Stephen Corey, Kevin Clark, Dinah Lenney, and Marjorie Sandor write about Judith Kitchen.

  Gabriel Blackwell, Kevin Clark, Marjorie Sandor, Stephen CoreyMar 25, 2015

  • Nonfiction

  • Poetry

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  The Meeting That Never Was

  "Although Orwell and Camus were two of the most intriguing political and literary figures of their time, they are rarely considered in relation to each other"

  Matthew LambMar 13, 2015

  • Nonfiction

• Upbringing Is All

  Daphne Merkin: “For people who have never had a childhood, being a grown-up isn’t where the glamour is.”

  Rayyan Al-ShawafMar 12, 2015

  • Nonfiction

• Pre-Code Hollywood Confidential

  “Hollywood knew how to manipulate a crime,” writes Mann, “their scenarists had been doing it for years.”

  Michael SandlinFeb 28, 2015

  • Noir

  • Nonfiction