The industry website Publishers Marketplace contains an entire category for sales made in the “Fiction: Debut” category, emphasizing an author’s entrée into the genre even if they have already ...

Every year I come out with a list, in no particular order, of the best nonfiction books I’ve read in the preceding 12 months (I will provide links at the end to previous years’ lists) along with short ...

On Thursday, the journalist Svetlana Alexievich won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. In this post, published last year, Philip Gourevitch praised Alexievich's work and argued that nonfiction ...

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A new book traces the careers of five talented Black women artists and activists who converged at a venue where performance and politics collided. By Joan Morgan In “Death of an Ordinary Man,” the ...

Taking a strong stance on the value of nonfiction for young readers and how educators can maximize this category’s benefits in their teachings, the National Council of Teachers of English has released ...

L ee Gutkind, a writer and administrator of a creative-writing program whom Vanity Fair once dubbed the “godfather behind creative nonfiction,” has reached his golden years in triumph. That’s the bad ...

There is no more troubling fact about U.S. education than this: The reading scores of 17-year-olds have shown no significant improvement since 1980. The new Common Core State Standards in 46 states ...

What do kids like to read when given the chance to choose their own books? That’s the subject of this post by three award-winning nonfiction authors — Cynthia Levinson, Melissa Stewart and Jennifer ...