Tom Zoellner’s The National Road seeks to take the measure of America.
Roberto Lovato’s Unforgetting chronicles public and private wars.
Conditional Citizens excavates the history of exclusion.
Laila Lalami reveals how California managed to shrink the pool of welfare recipients and expand the suffering of the poor.
Mike Davis and Jon Wiener revisit the turbulence of Los Angeles in the 1960s—and come correct.
In Screening Reality, Jon Wilkman rethinks a film genre—and its history.
E.J. Koh, Dinah Lenney, Harry Dodge, and Roman Dial take us into very real worlds with these nonfiction selections.
Luis J. Rodriguez's From Our Land to Our Land: Essays, Journeys, and Imaginings from a Native Xicanx Writer.
What makes Rebecca Solnit’s essays so popular? That they’re probably so right. And that’s a problem.
The author discovers transcendence at an alternative prison ranch.
Intimate and intense, these nonfiction selections are must-reads for 2020.
Rachel Monroe discusses the radical empathy of true crime.
In a new memoir, Diane Keaton disassembles her family’s narrative.
The author of Between Heaven and Hell discusses his stroke, his recovery, and what it means to restart his life.
In Erosion, Terry Tempest Williams bears unflinching witness to what gets stripped away.
Gary Snyder’s Tawny Grammar is short on pages but long on decency.
