The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Marcia Chatelain revisits the 1963 March on Washington, placing overlooked Black women ...

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 ...

Changes in publishing have altered this genre for the better, so put some books on your holiday list A recent column in the Washington Post asked “Will my grandkids still love me if I buy them ...

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 ...

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Over 700 books were submitted as contenders for this year’s award ...

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 ...

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 ...