It’s no secret that many adults enjoy reading nonfiction, and as a result, in the adult publishing world, fiction and nonfiction are respected equally. Major book awards routinely include separate ...

Here, you’ll find the best nonfiction books of all time—the ones that will really make you think. Many of these titles were culled from the annals of Pulitzer, the National Book Critics Circle, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Authors know the importance of titles. They help to orient the reader or sometimes, with intent, to disorient. They can add dimension and weight; they can exemplify or elucidate. It is, therefore, ...

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 ...

Before I started listening to audiobooks, I will admit, I was a bit skeptical of the idea. A hardcore bibliophile, I have always felt a certain attachment to physical books, but once I tried listening ...

Back in the 1980s, former HBO Documentary Films president Sheila Nevins saw an opportunity in the nonfiction short format. “I was watching the Academy Awards one night and there was this category ...