Non-fiction

Genres

The Sacred Shelf: What Thirty Million Devotional Readers Are Actually Telling Us

Print sales of Bibles and devotionals nearly doubled from 2019 to 2025. The religious publishing boom is less about faith than about anxiety — and what it reveals about what secular literature is failing to provide.

Reviews

How True Does a Memoir Have to Be?

The New Yorker investigated Belle Burden's bestselling memoir Strangers and found that the author who described terror at losing her homes in divorce had a net worth of over ten million dollars. An uncomfortable question about the genre.

News

Rachel Maddow's New Book Arrives One Week After the Midterms

Rachel Maddow turns her archival eye to the US Department of Justice in Department of Fate, due from Crown on November 10, 2026 — one week after the midterm elections.

Authors

Robert Caro, 90, Has Written 983 Pages of His Final LBJ Volume

Robert Caro, 90 years old and 44 years into his monumental LBJ biography, revealed this week that he has written 983 pages of the final volume. The greatest living American biographer is not done yet.

Authors

The Thread Han Kang Has Always Been Pulling

In <em>Light and Thread</em>, Han Kang's first nonfiction in English, the Nobel laureate meditates on language as a thread of connection between writer and reader. A shift from the violence of her fiction toward something more vulnerable, more hopeful.

News

The Shelf That's Always a Little Too High: Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2026 Shortlist

Arundhati Roy lands on the 2026 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction shortlist with Mother Mary Comes to Me, alongside five voices covering wars, exiles, and bodies.