nonfiction

Why Nonfiction Writers Should Try Writing Fiction (and Vice Versa)

Abbott Kahler on How Real Life Informs Fiction

 
By Abbott Kahler  January 17, 2024
Daily Fiction

Nonfiction

By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 4, 2024
New Books Tuesdays

New York cults! Lawrence of Arabia! 18 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot  January 2, 2024
In Conversation

Phyllis Rose on Writing About Real People in Nonfiction, Making Your Diaries Public, and More

By Rumena Bužarovska  December 13, 2023
Best of 2023

Our Favorite Lit Hub Stories from 2023

By Literary Hub  December 7, 2023
Best Reviewed Books of the Year

The Best Reviewed Nonfiction of 2023

By Book Marks  December 7, 2023
The Hub

Here are the 2023 recipients of the $40,000 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant.

By Literary Hub  December 6, 2023
Baillie Gifford Prize

John Vaillant’s “Fire Weather” has won the Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction.

By Jonny Diamond  November 16, 2023
The Hub

Announcing this year’s winner of the $75,000 Cundill History Prize.

By Literary Hub  November 8, 2023
Best Reviewed Books of the Month

October’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

By Book Marks  October 27, 2023
The Hub

Here’s the longlist for the 2023 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

By Literary Hub  September 14, 2023
Prizes

Here’s the longlist for the 2023 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction.

By Literary Hub  September 6, 2023
Best Reviewed Books of the Month

August’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

By Book Marks  September 1, 2023
Behind the Book Cover

Two Designers, Two Countries, Two Covers: How Limitarianism Got Its Look

By Literary Hub  August 10, 2023
Writing Process

William Dameron On the Tricky Art of Turning Truth Into Fiction

By William Dameron  August 7, 2023
Best Reviewed Books of the Month

June’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

By Book Marks  June 30, 2023
New in Nonfiction

10 Nonfiction Books to Read This July

By Jonny Diamond  June 30, 2023
Keen On

Clémence Michallon on Why Fiction Must Be More Realistic Than Nonfiction

By Keen On  June 30, 2023
Buddhism

Literature in the Bardo: Tenzin Dickie on the Past, Present, and Future of the Tibetan Essay

By Tenzin Dickie  June 26, 2023
rebirth

Boundaries Dissolve: Joanna Biggs on Reading Ferrante With Other Women

By Joanna Biggs  June 1, 2023
Journalism

From Rarefied to Beloved: The Path from Molly Ivins to Joan Didion

By Brooke Kroeger  May 25, 2023
Summer reading

25 Nonfiction Books You Need to Read This Summer

By Literary Hub  May 25, 2023
China

On Xi Jinping’s Purges and the Contradictions of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection

By Chun Han Wong  May 24, 2023
Just the Right Book

Revisiting Some Tiny Beautiful Things with Cheryl Strayed

By Just the Right Book   May 18, 2023
Baillie Gifford Prize

Why is Serious Nonfiction in the US Taken More Seriously Than in the UK?

By Sam Leith  May 12, 2023
Baillie Gifford Prize

Meet the Baillie Gifford Nonfiction Prize “Winner of Winners” Shortlist

By Literary Hub  April 25, 2023
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