“Okay,” said Raymie, even though she had absolutely no interest in nonfiction. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Don’t know what nonfiction means or if there are really 580 books on trees, but I look anyhow. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“But I still stand by my opinion that a book of interviews... ordinarily wouldn’t work. It’s not fiction, but it’s not nonfiction either. Perhaps it’s anthropological but that’s a ghastly category to be in.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I read books about slavery, fiction and nonfiction. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Klan Unmasked, Kennedy’s memoir of his exploits “inside” the Klan, is in fact more of a novelization than a straight nonfiction account. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

By twelfth grade, 70 percent of reading is to consist of nonfiction. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The passage also reminds us of the overlap in techniques for writing fiction and nonfiction. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

When he looked up, surprised, I put a stack of nonfiction down in front of him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He’d also sold his idea for a nonfiction book about race and identity to a New York publisher, which for someone who worshipped books as he did felt like an enormous and humbling boon. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

After a moment, he took the nonfiction to another bookcase and began shelving it. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She gets up and walks me back to the nonfiction section. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Lawes wrote five nonfiction books in all; he also did radio broadcasts and contributed articles to magazines. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In nonfiction, I spot a single copy of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“We have an extensive nonfiction section, which is sure to cover all kinds of cat health issues.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been reading a lot more nonfiction, history and biographies. About everything, not just America.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Under its guidelines, by fourth grade, students will devote half their reading time to nonfiction, including historical documents, maps, and other “informational texts”—even such materials as train schedules and recipes. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Now imagine reading a nonfiction book packed with stories such as this—true tales soberly related—just before setting off alone on a camping trip of your own into the North American wilderness. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

This was my first major encounter with historical nonfiction, and I found it fascinating. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

"Do you want to write novels or nonfiction?" he asks. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’m drawn to the nonfiction shelf, where I try to find the thickest book of them all, no matter what it’s about. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Mr. Flux was laid out on a toppled nonfiction shelf. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She adjusts her glasses and asks, “All finished reshelving in the nonfiction section?” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

"But when I write, I like getting deeper into the issues and thinking critically about them. I love argument. So, nonfiction, I guess." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They wound up doing a nonfiction book together. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Right over there in the nonfiction section. Try the 580 call numbers,” she says. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

People were scattered around the nonfiction floor of the library, some looking through books and others sitting at tables reading. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Memoir, nonfiction and realistic fiction are my favorites. Raina Telgemeier Can’t Wait to Break Bread With Her Friends Again 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

His “1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare” and “Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?” are as entertaining as any nonfiction of recent years. Shakespeare Conquers America! Starring Ulysses S. Grant as Desdemona 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

Ms. Ugresic continued to publish fiction and nonfiction after leaving Croatia. Dubravka Ugresic, Who Wrote of Dislocation and Exile, Dies at 73 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z

The first comprehensive anthology of Hurston’s nonfiction brings together previously published and new work, touching on everything from jazz to school integration. 16 New Books Coming in January 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

As intriguing as this material is in itself, it's Lasdun's deviations from it that make for such an odd and original work of nonfiction. Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked by James Lasdun – review 2013-02-16T14:00:01Z

And yet there was still the anger and the social critique that Mr. Baldwin was noted for in his nonfiction work. Barry Jenkins on “The Fire Next Time” and “If Beale Street Could Talk” 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z

“This is a work of fiction as well as nonfiction,” Kumar explains in an author’s note, “an in-between novel by an in-between writer.” An Immigrant Weaves His Love Stories Between Fact and Fiction 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

This is indicative of the problem with creative nonfiction when creative becomes too strong an imperative. Pretending to Play the Violin 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

But his proximity to the story is what ultimately renders “Rewind” so powerful, and the results seem as much an act of therapy and catharsis as nonfiction filmmaking. ‘Charm City Kings,’ ‘Babyteeth’ and Other Hidden Streaming Gems 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

In many of Herzog’s nonfiction films, the director himself is a defining presence. ‘Family Romance, LLC’ Review: Werner Herzog’s Comfort for Hire 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

Last summer, he posted a more academic list of nonfiction works to his Facebook page. Obama Shares His Summer Reading List 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

Her first two books for young people, the novel “What Happened in Marston,” about racial violence, and the nonfiction work “Berlin: City Split in Two,” appeared in 1971. Nancy Garden Dies at 76; Wrote Young-Adult Novel of Lesbians 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

Miller founded Flatiron last year as a nonfiction imprint, but he said in a statement that hiring Einhorn provides an “irresistible” chance to publish fiction, too. Publisher Amy Einhorn joins new company 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

My favorite genre is what I would call “disturbing, high-stakes nonfiction.” Simon Rich: By the Book 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

Wilkerson’s “Caste,” her widely read exploration of American racism; was a nonfiction finalist. Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ among finalists for book critics awards 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z

Hemingway chronicled the trip in a series of articles for Esquire magazine, and it served as the basis for his 1935 nonfiction book “Green Hills of Africa.” What Hemingway Left in Sloppy Joe’s Bar 80 Years Ago 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

There are certain nonfiction writers—often critics, sometimes journalists—whose particular talents and tastes seem especially well matched to their era. Nellie Bly's Lessons in Writing What You Want To 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Bai, who admires Mr. Cramer as “one of the greatest nonfiction writers of this or any age,” isn’t interested here in simply reconstructing the story of what happened to Mr. Hart. Matt Bai’s ‘All the Truth Is Out’ Revisits Gary Hart Scandal 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

In "Bestiaire," a cool, sometimes cruel, formally elegant nonfiction look at a Quebec safari park, there's a scene in which some people stop on an outdoor bridge next to a chimpanzee exhibition. 'Bestiaire': Meditation on captive animals both beautiful, repellent 2012-11-15T21:33:08Z

The foundation released lists of 10 this week in five competitive categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translation and young people’s literature. Doerr, Powers on fiction longlist for National Book Awards 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

And last summer, he became an editor-at-large at Tin House, an independent publisher, where he’ll acquire and edit about three nonfiction books a year. How Hanif Abdurraqib Cuts Through the Noise 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z

It was a #1 New York Times bestseller, as well as being named Time Magazine's best nonfiction book of the year. Louis Zamperini, inspiration for 'Unbroken,' dead at 97 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

Charles Murray’s book “Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010” about the class divide in white America, hits The New York Times hardcover nonfiction best-seller list at No. 9 this week. ArtsBeat: Black and White: Charles Murray and Baratunde Thurston Quiz Each Other 2012-02-10T18:58:42Z

I realized I just wasn’t very satisfied as a writer anymore, strictly writing nonfiction. Karl Taro Greenfeld on His New Book, Urban Origin Myths and Whether Dads Can “Have It All” 2012-08-01T17:59:13Z

Once it did, another set of ideas started to find their way in—this time inspired by something I witnessed while working on a nonfiction piece for this magazine. George Saunders on the Induced Bafflement of Fiction 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

Available for their 120 guests to take were copies of 22 fiction and nonfiction titles related to the city of Baltimore, where the couple has lived since 2015, or by authors with connections to it. Looking for a Wedding Favor? Try the Best-Seller List. 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

My profound affection for Mailer, which stretches beyond this single work and covers much of his nonfiction writing, is something I can’t fully explain. The joy of literary destruction: Writers who broke all the rules 2014-01-19T15:00:00Z

These days, Lee is working on her third novel, “American Hagwon,” about Korean after-school academies or “cram schools,” and “Name Recognition,” a nonfiction book. ‘Pachinko’ author Min Jin Lee on wrapping up trilogy about Korean life 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z

Ms. Pineda was born in New York to a Mexican father and Swiss mother, and in her books, which included both novels and nonfiction, she often examined issues of colonialism and identity. Cecile Pineda, Latina Writer Known for a Novel of Identity, Dies at 89 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z

For the preliminary round of voting, the Documentary Branch Screening Committee viewed 124 feature-length nonfiction films that qualified in the category. 15 films chosen for Oscars documentary shortlist 2011-11-21T02:34:01Z

The show will be based on the nonfiction book Busted: A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love. Sarah Jessica Parker to Play a Reporter in New Show 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

Hardly purist in its approach to nonfiction, the film mixes interviews and constructed footage. ‘The 2021 Oscar Nominated Short Films’ Review: Major Issues in Brief 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

Mr. Kinsella published almost 30 books of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. W.P. Kinsella, Author of ‘Shoeless Joe,’ Dies at 81 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

Her latest book, “See What Can Be Done,” is a work of nonfiction that highlights a different side of her writing: less acerbic, more generous. Lorrie Moore has some instructions on how to read her new book 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

Each was billed as nonfiction but, crucially, only the Malcolm X book should have been so designated. Review: In ‘Alex Haley: And the Books That Changed a Nation,’ a Reputation Made and Lost 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

Inevitably, 2020 has been a year filled to the brim with books about politics — and not just in nonfiction. Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

A lifelong journalist  and currently an editorial writer for the Los Angeles Times, he has published four books of nonfiction. Coming to the Festival of Books: Scott Martelle 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

Whether or not Iyer’s evaluation is justified, Mailer and Eggers share one other distinction: like Mailer 30 years ago, Eggers is at the center of nonfiction controversy and scandal. Did Dave Eggers get “Zeitoun” wrong? 2012-12-09T15:00:00Z

That stretch began in tastelessness, violence and pique, included the anointing of a divine achievement in nonfiction filmmaking and ended in a gospel-oriented celebration of the lives of the dead. The Slap Wasn’t the Only Astonishing Thing About the Oscars 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z

Assembled after Updike’s death in 2009 by the editor Christopher Carduff, “Higher Gossip” is a somewhat more scattershot affair than his earlier nonfiction collections. Books of The Times: ?Higher Gossip? by John Updike - Review 2011-11-28T22:39:39Z

Mr. Shadid was selected in the nonfiction category for his memoir, "House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East." ArtsBeat: Díaz and Caro Among Finalists for National Book Award 2012-10-10T15:23:00Z

“For authors of high-end fiction and nonfiction, HBO is one of the last games in town,” said Frank Rich, a former New York Times columnist and a longtime friend of Mr. Plepler’s. Richard Plepler of HBO Stands Tall in New York’s Cultural Elite 2012-09-21T15:57:49Z

But a more serious kind of death — the nonfiction kind — also received TV’s attention. Staring at the End, in Several Senses 2013-12-13T19:29:33Z

To celebrate its latest Emmy nomination in the outstanding documentary or nonfiction series category, the PBS institution “American Masters” is making a few complete features available on its website. Theater to Stream: A World of Fringe and More Apples 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

Oliver Stone will write and direct a narrative adaptation of "The Snowden Files," Luke Harding's nonfiction account of the ongoing scandal surrounding former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. Oliver Stone to direct film about former NSA contractor Edward Snowden 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

Intelligence and honesty are a rare and therefore potent combination in nonfiction TV. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations,’ the Final Season 2012-09-02T21:59:41Z

His first collection, "The Ecstasy of Influence," revealed that his nonfiction follows the trajectory of his fiction — that is, toward nuance, paradox and what he calls “apertures.” Jonathan Lethem on his new mega-literary, meta-literary collection 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

Next Friday at 7 p.m., the actor Nick Offerman will read from his debut book, “Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man’s Fundamentals for Delicious Living,” and talk with the nonfiction writer Sarah Vowell. Spare Times for Sept. 5-11 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Yet the reason I knew I was a nonfiction writer, rather than a novelist, was that it was clear from the beginning that the I – the narrator – was always going to be me. Feminist icon Vivian Gornick, still in the fight: A conversation with Jonathan Lethem 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

He added, “We see our show as a little nonfiction novel.” A Prime-Time True-Crime Spree 2011-08-20T19:45:03Z

The mountainside festival which kicks off Thursday in Park City, Utah, has become known for launching nonfiction films to box office successes and awards, and this year is shaping up to be no different. At Sundance, powerhouse documentaries will be everywhere 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z

The National Book Awards are given in four categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature. Reader’s Guide to This Fall’s Big Book Awards 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

Errors in even the finest works of nonfiction are ridiculously common. Review: Jonah Lehrer’s ‘A Book About Love’ Is Another Unoriginal Sin 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z

The film is based on Rebecca Skloot's nonfiction book of the same name. Oprah Winfrey is expanding her participation in HBO's "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks." 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

The actual genesis for the book, though, is that I have a project to do — a historical nonfiction narrative history of the United States, in different decades and around different turning points of history. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Making Good Time With the Pony Express 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z

Ackroyd is a prolific author of fiction, nonfiction, biography, poetry and criticism, with some 35 books to his credit. Book review: ‘Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life,’ by Peter Ackroyd 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Mr. Weinraub labors to give “Fall” a nonfiction aura, pinning its scenes to real events and including interstitial documentary material like newspaper headlines and verbatim extracts from Miller’s antiwar speeches. Review: Putting Arthur Miller on Trial in ‘Fall’ 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

My boyfriend and I read a book aloud to each other, usually a novel but sometimes nonfiction. Pet chicks, pink hair, an old plane: Explore this illustration of readers' pandemic coping habits

This book was to be a serious yet eminently readable work of narrative nonfiction. My book was a bad idea 2012-06-27T00:00:00Z

I read fiction, then go back to nonfiction. Ian Frazier Wishes Somebody Would Write About the World’s Largest Beaver Dam 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

In the often-miserly world of literary magazines, it offers healthy rates; fiction and nonfiction entries can net writers as much as $1,300 per piece. How a Tiny Literary Magazine Became a Springboard for Great Irish Writing 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

The acclaimed nonfiction book, released last fall, details the assault on a U.S. diplomatic compound. Watch the First Trailer for Michael Bay's Benghazi Movie 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

The men I treat overwhelmingly talk about either nonfiction titles with subjects I find dull — politics or business — or light, funny books about fatherhood that I tend to find cloying. Your Therapist’s Prescription? The Right Book. 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

It is Lahiri's first book of nonfiction, yet it contains two short stories. Jhumpa Lahiri falls in love with language again, exquisitely, by writing in Italian 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

When she began to publish adult nonfiction that mentioned her faith, some readers weren’t surprised. For ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Fans, an Audiobook That Celebrates Madeleine L’Engle 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

Will Tracy become a fiction writer or a nonfiction writer? “Mistress America” and the Art of Making a Living as an Artist 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

Given that PBS is already a major importer of BBC scripted fare, the deal represents “the perfect foundation on which to extend this partnership” into nonfiction fare, BBC executive Matt Forde wrote in a statement. PBS teams with Ridley Scott for Civil War hospital drama 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

"Minor Feelings," is Hong's fourth book, and her first work of nonfiction. Cathy Park Hong: "Sometimes you just have to push back – being offended is part of the process" 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

Her “The Situation and the Story” is one of the key texts for the burgeoning field of “creative nonfiction.” Feminist icon Vivian Gornick, still in the fight: A conversation with Jonathan Lethem 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

That when working in “nonfiction,” they don’t weigh the same ingredients he does — structure, theme, resonance, rhythm — in order to wring something wondrous from the ordinary? ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Fact, Fiction and In Between 2012-02-24T21:51:58Z

Here are nine books, both fiction and nonfiction, about the victims and perpetrators of mass shootings in North America. 9 books to help us understand mass shootings 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

With the latest version of “Gatsby” upon us, we polled some of today’s top authors — novelists and nonfiction writers alike — about Hollywood’s track record with book-to-movie adaptations. Authors weigh in on their favorite page-to-screen adaptations 2013-05-09T19:21:16Z

With “The Last Emperor” and “The September Issue,” a peek inside Vogue that took in $6.4 million in 2009, a sizable audience was established, at least by the standards of nonfiction film. Bergdorf Goodman Joins Valentino in the Documentary Lineup 2013-04-28T21:38:26Z

The fourth collection of Amis’s nonfiction and Zadie Smith’s new book of essays find these two celebrated writers, friends from different generations, addressing politics, aging, art and more. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

Born in Berlin before World War II and later safely settled in the United States, the Blackwood brothers started making their films in the 1960s at the height of a revolution in nonfiction storytelling. In the Documentaries of the Blackwood Brothers, Great Artists Explored 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

But the nonfiction is a good place for readers to start who are new to Wallace. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: D. T. Max on David Foster Wallace 2012-09-12T16:30:39Z

The books I enjoy the most, however, are straightforward nonfiction books, such as hopefully the next one on my list, which is “A Most Remarkable Creature,” by Jonathan Meiburg, on the caracara, a raptor. The 1,328-Page Novel That Captivated the Primatologist Frans de Waal 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

With nonfiction at least you can learn something. Books of The Times: ?Extra Virginity? by Tom Mueller; a Word on Olive Oil - Review 2011-12-07T21:50:14Z

“I don’t know what the hot topic is. I don’t care what’s trending. I read mostly nonfiction, as a matter of fact.” S. E. Hinton, “The Outsiders,” and the Birth of Y.A. 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

Her memoir, “Ordinary Light,” was a finalist for the National Book Award for nonfiction. Library of Congress National Book Festival: Poetry Stage schedule 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

The book is the latest entry in a growing genre of nonfiction: the consumption horror story. The Life and Death of Your Jeans 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

In these times I am finding that I can bear to read only nonfiction or crime fiction, so I was very happy for all the author suggestions in the recent feature on Scandinavian noir. Letters to the Editor 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

“The Baby Chase” delivers on the promise of the best journalistic nonfiction. Motherlode Blog: Motherlode Must-Read: ‘The Baby Chase: How Surrogacy Is Transforming the American Family’ 2014-01-14T21:51:13Z

She traveled with Capote to Kansas to help research “In Cold Blood,” his acclaimed “nonfiction novel” that recounted the 1959 murder of a farm family. Harper Lee, elusive author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ is dead at 89 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

Cosplay is a live-action form of fan art, or maybe fan nonfiction, and the owners of the intellectual property rights are careful not to interfere too much. At Comic-Con, Bring Out Your Fantasy and Fuel the Culture 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

This does not mean that the nonfiction is lesser, or that it is a source text. Chekhov’s Beautiful Nonfiction 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

“The Impostor,” a work of nonfiction, is the history of an ugly and wildly successful lie. He Was a Prominent Holocaust Survivor. But His Story Was a Hoax. 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

Dickey is the author of three books of nonfiction, including the forthcoming "Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places." Dealing in uncertainty, the essay may be the perfect form for our time 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

Pristine in its production values, unfailingly empathic in its approach, populated by unforgettable characters, “American Factory” might be categorized under “nonfiction,” but no film this year was more dramatically compelling. Best movies of 2019: A compelling mix of new and established voices 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z

It also blurred the line between fiction and nonfiction. Robert M. Pirsig, best-selling author of ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,’ dies at 88 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

The Girl and Hitchcock are about productions of specific films in the late 1950s and early 60s, based on nonfiction works by people who knew Hitchcock. Hitchcock – review 2013-02-10T00:05:00Z

But I veer more toward nonfiction now, because I’m looking for templates on how to live and grow and deal with life as it changes in front of me. Mira Sorvino Replenishes With Crosswords and Marinara Sauce 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

Indeed, he became famous for using “novelistic techniques in his nonfiction,” a hybrid that became known as the New Journalism. Your Tom Wolfe Reader 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z

“I hadn’t realized the sheer scope of his nonfiction,” said the Nigerian writer Emmanuel Iduma, who, like Wainaina, has experimented with form, producing two highly original books of memoir, travel and reportage. A Provocative Satirist Left a Pervasive Legacy, Influencing African Writing 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z

James Dawson's "This Book Is Gay" is currently shelved in the library's juvenile nonfiction section. 'This Book Is Gay,' an LGBT sex ed book for teens, is challenged in Wasilla, Alaska 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

Boo was chosen from one of the strongest lists of nonfiction books in memory, from the fourth volume of Robert Caro's Lyndon Johnson series to Shadid's memoir "House of Stone." Erdrich wins her first National Book Award 2012-11-15T15:12:08Z

For the week ended August 14, "Composed" debuted at No. 20 on the New York Times best-seller list for hardcover nonfiction. Rosanne Cash certain she'll write second memoir 2010-09-04T01:04:00Z

In the world of nonfiction, Bowden is an ace, a writer with guts and gusto. 'Worm': Inside the fight against Conficker virus 2011-10-19T23:16:04Z

But book publishers are sometimes more permissive in what qualifies as nonfiction. I like my imagined literary nemesis 2013-06-01T22:30:00Z

Through the years, we were afforded glimpses of the precarity of life under the Taliban, usually through nonfiction films. Perspective | Even the best films about Afghanistan couldn’t have prepared us for this scene 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z

In particular, there are few award-eligible nonfiction books, a category of books that many beginning readers particularly prefer. Good new books for beginning readers 2010-07-30T22:52:00Z

Like many a noir novel, the nonfiction "Unreal City" has a somewhat convoluted beginning, as Nies untangles an incredibly complex history of economic growth and ecological destruction. Judith Nies' 'Unreal City' built on huge water, energy deals 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

It drew 11.8 million viewers in August for the debut of its fourth season, a record for a cable nonfiction series, according to A&E. 'Duck Dynasty' anti-gay fallout sparks wider debate on tolerance 2013-12-20T01:38:53Z

As in Didion’s vintage nonfiction, the characters in “The Feral Detective” suffer from a disorder caused by history itself. Take a Very Dark Trip Through the California Desert With ‘The Feral Detective’ 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

True crime was more the domain of documentary features and magazine shows like “Dateline” or “The First 48,” those nonfiction procedural counterparts to the “CSI” and “Law & Order” franchises. Who killed Sister Cathy? That is — and isn’t — the story of Netflix’s latest true crime show 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Bowden, the author of such muscular nonfiction narratives as “Black Hawk Down” and “Guests of the Ayatollah,” writes about technology issues as a semi-civilian. Books of The Times: Mark Bowden?s ?Worm,? About Conficker - Review 2011-10-03T22:30:32Z

"He Killed Them All" will be Pirro's second nonfiction book; she previously wrote "To Punish and Protect: Against a System That Coddles Criminals." 'He Killed Them All': Prosecutor Jeanine Pirro writing Robert Durst book 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

While the heart of Local Sightings' programming is its daily schedule of short films, there is an interesting batch of longer fiction and nonfiction fare. Local Sightings Film Festival is set to roll 2011-09-27T00:03:04Z

Despite the illness, she became vice president and publisher of nonfiction books for the Scholastic Classroom and Library Group in 2004. Jackie Carter, Who Pushed for Racial Diversity in Children’s Books, Dies at 62 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

Winners of the organization's annual fiction and nonfiction awards will be named later. Ohio literature award renamed for Holbrooke 2011-08-02T16:16:08Z

The challenge for any nonfiction film, which by definition involves nonactors, is getting the actors in the Academy to pay attention to something other than themselves. Documentaries aim to make Oscar history 2010-11-24T02:13:00Z

The cool thing is, it’s the rare piece of nonfiction that isn’t just dumping the policy problem on you. What Adam Conover Can’t Travel Without 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

In a visual version of creative nonfiction, she places people she barely knows in domestic settings that she arranged like stage sets. The Best Art Books of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

When did you know you would write fiction deeply rooted in history, and did you ever consider writing more academic nonfiction history? ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Pat Barker on 'Toby's Room' 2012-11-08T13:00:46Z

Not the transforming of material from another medium into musical theater: Movies, plays, novels, even nonfiction books have always been useful sources of a proudly hybrid American — even parasitic — form of entertainment. Perspective | ‘Pretty Woman’ is another movie-to-stage dud 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

David France is an American investigative reporter, nonfiction author and director of the Oscar-nominated documentary How to Survive a Plague. 20 must-see documentaries to explain the world in 2020 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z

This unique account of the Islamic faith, a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction, focuses on the perspective of an imam the author has known for more than 20 years. Notable nonfiction of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

Two nonfiction shows about struggling underdogs also received Emmys. Britain wins 5 International Emmys 2010-11-23T10:16:00Z

In addition to buying fiction, nonfiction and poetry by Black writers, think about diversifying the voices that are included on your cookbook and food memoir shelf. Add these cookbooks by Black authors to your kitchen repertoire 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z

But imagine the passage above as nonfiction: exchange the particularity of “Oblonksy” for a generic, the “well-to-do liberal.” An Answer to the Novel’s Detractors 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

Excitement, obviously, because it's a list of 102 spectacular nonfiction stories, the majority of which I haven't yet read, and I'm a voracious consumer of good narrative nonfiction. The essential must-read guide on how to read all those must-reads 2013-02-01T15:24:43Z

The award for nonfiction went to Sarah Broom for “The Yellow House,” her memoir about her New Orleans home and how her family scattered after Hurricane Katrina. Susan Choi Wins National Book Award for ‘Trust Exercise’ 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

We praise fiction by saying it has the ring of truth, and nonfiction by saying it has the feel of a novel. ‘Consent,’ a Memoir That Shook France, Recalls Living a ‘Perverse Nightmare’ 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

Earlier this week, the National Book Foundation announced the nominees for young people’s literature, poetry and nonfiction. Lauren Groff and Nell Zink Are Among National Book Award Fiction Nominees 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

He went on to write nonfiction and screenplays, but he eventually decided to accept roles in horror films, including “Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers,” “Hellblock 13” and “Next Victim.” Gunnar Hansen, the Killer in ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre,’ Dies at 68 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z

The promotion offers children the option of choosing one of 10 paperback nonfiction books, or one of 16 e-books in lieu of a toy with their meal. Happy Meals with books? Australian parents group isn't loving it 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

“Mafia Inc” was officially inspired by a nonfiction book on the Canadian mob. ‘Mafia Inc’ Review: The Business They Have Chosen 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

Plump new collections of Wendell Berry’s nonfiction were issued by the Library of America. Moments in Reading That Salvaged an Often Sour Year 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

This year, there were more than 300 eligible books in the fiction and nonfiction categories, and more than 500 in the young readers' literature category. These authors are in the running for the $50,000 Kirkus Prize book awards 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

To be clear, I'd be wondering that about any nonfiction project about any single specific newsroom produced by or in partnership with that newsroom's management. "On the Trail" spotlights CNN's women reporters and prompts examination of campaign coverage bias 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

“Hard Choices” sold well enough to top the nonfiction list of Nielsen BookScan, which tracks industry sales. Hillary book sales top 100,000 in first week 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

Consider the raw interview, a nonfiction podcast staple that reveals as much about the person asking the questions as the one answering them. The Art of the Taboo Podcast Interview 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

I find myself reading a lot more nonfiction these days. Elizabeth Acevedo Understands That ‘People Read Like They Eat’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

From minimal ingredients, “News From Home” emerges as one of the most poignant and personal of all experimental nonfiction films. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

Well, my first book was an autobiographical novel, and so I think it was an easier transition for me to move to nonfiction. "Survival Math" author Mitchell Jackson reckons with his "All-American" life 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

His 1968 book "The Armies of the Night," described as a "nonfiction novel," won the Pulitzer Prize along with the National Book Award. Reports of Norman Mailer’s cancellation have been greatly exaggerated 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

Caro himself has become a kind of legend among nonfiction writers, and he’s just published a book called “Working.” Robert Caro Reflects on Robert Moses, L.B.J., and His Own Career in Nonfiction 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

Years ago, Montefiore sealed his reputation as an exceptional nonfiction writer with his riveting double biography “Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar” and its prequel, “Young Stalin.” ‘One Night in Winter,’ by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Albom’s first nonfiction book since 2009 tells the wrenching story of the Haitian orphan he and his wife adopted after learning of the girl’s brain tumor. New & Noteworthy, From Carrie Fisher to the Case for Impeachment 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

I think that this love was rooted in a lifelong romance with the soul; in his fiction and nonfiction films and in his daily life Jonathan was captivated by life lived to its fullest. Jonathan Demme: The mentor, the maestro, the model 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. King, much to his surprise, had just been declared the winner in the general nonfiction category for “Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys and the Dawn of a New America.” Gilbert King on His Pulitzer-Winning ‘Devil in the Grove’ 2013-04-24T21:49:56Z

Although his work and above recommendations are nonfiction, Freedman said his pleasure reading is 90 percent fiction. Great reads for the armchair traveler 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

Superhero stories have been joined on the comics shelves by realistic fiction and by memoirs and other nonfiction. Perspective | Don’t be afraid to let children read graphic novels. They’re real books. 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

Abrams, 47, is also the author of the nonfiction books “Lead from the Outside” and “Our Time Is Now.” Stacey Abrams has deal for 2 more political thrillers 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

A singular piece of filmmaking where nonfiction talent met transcendent musical genius on the threshold of gargantuan stardom, this is the best Beatles documentary ever produced. 25 great rockumentaries every music (and movie) fan should see 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z

But baseball is back, and to mark the occasion I asked books and sports staffers at The Times to recommend their favorite books, fiction or nonfiction, that revolve around the sport. ArtsBeat: Reading Suggestions for Baseball's Opening Week 2012-04-06T16:28:27Z

It’s a proposal for “utopian” news broadcasts with a platform far bigger than any nonfiction fist-shaker. “The Newsroom”: Cliched as hell 2012-06-21T00:00:00Z

Penguin is planning other Amplified works, fiction and nonfiction, but Barton declined to cite anything specific. Amplified edition of Ken Follett novel released 2010-07-20T13:34:00Z

Here’s a reading list of upcoming titles, listed by month of publication, categorized by fiction and nonfiction. 30 books for spring reading 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z

Winners in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature are expected to be announced beginning at 9:15 p.m. ArtsBeat Blog: Celebratory Night for the Book World 2011-11-16T22:30:37Z

Abrams’ previous books include the nonfiction “Our Time is Now” and “Lead from the Outside” and several romantic suspense novels under the pen name Selena Montgomery. Stacey Abrams novel ‘While Justice Sleeps’ coming May 25 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z

And throughout the course of working on this book, did you ever get pushback on its genre, or feel any pressure to take a first-person nonfiction approach? "My Dark Vanessa" author: Canceling Nabokov's "Lolita" is "missing the point" of society's problem 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

“The book does not claim to be an academic historical piece of nonfiction, I’ll leave that to the academics and historians,” she wrote in an email. ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ and the History in Historical Fiction 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

I like to be reading a work of fiction and nonfiction at the same time. Review | A former congressman asked his old colleagues for book suggestions. Here’s their list. 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

Partisan issues are often narrowly argued in nonfiction films and warrant some wariness. Review: ‘The Armor of Light’ Follows 2 Unlikely Allies Against Gun Violence 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

One of the most elusive skills in narrative nonfiction, and Hesse has it, is knowing the proper order to arrange your facts. An Arsonist and His Femme Fatale Partner Fuel ‘American Fire’ 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

Her two major nonfiction books — “Dreaming: Hard Luck and Good Times in America” and “Making a Literary Life” have a common thread: dignifying the outsider and providing a road map to a better life. Post critic Carolyn See stood up to tastemakers and became one of her own 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z

The story, based on the nonfiction book by the author and Nantucket resident Nathaniel Philbrick, recounts the sinking of the whale ship, the Essex. Hotel and Resort News: Music in Paris, Coffee Lessons in Orlando 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

With nonfiction, someone is always going to quibble about facts large and small. Webb Hubbell, writing his way to reclamation

Faux history for the GOP Earlier this month, the evangelical writer David Barton’s new book, “The Jefferson Lies,” hit the New York Times bestseller list for hardcover nonfiction. What gets declassified? 2012-05-31T21:09:00Z

But we nonfiction writers need to stay wedded to truth and reality, which I suspect makes us pretty useless as espionage material. ArtsBeat: The Spy Game: Ben Macintyre Talks About 'Double Cross' 2012-08-01T18:12:24Z

Margaret Truman Daniel wrote fiction and nonfiction, after her father, Harry S. Truman, left office. First Family of Writers Grows by One 2011-04-12T23:00:52Z

We've read sober nonfiction books chronicling it and thoughtful fiction by soldiers — some with MFAs — who are beginning to process what they saw there. Mark Doten's 'The Infernal' a darkly twisted take on Iraq war 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

That final story, “Statistical Abstract for my Hometown, Spokane, Washington,” is the collection’s one nonfiction account. ‘We Live in Water’: virtuoso stories by Jess Walter 2013-02-13T22:30:09Z

It put her on a certain kind of nonfiction publishing path — and 14 years later, she's stepping away from it, with plans to keep going. What made Amy Stewart leave garden bestsellers behind for the novel 'Girl Waits with Gun'? 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

We’ll hear about which fiction and nonfiction books were chosen and why, and which of the editors’ personal favorites didn’t make the cut this time. The 10 Best Books of 2022: An Event Announcing Our List 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z

Hundreds of thousands of people in the U.K. made "Spare" that country's fastest-selling nonfiction book ever. Prince Harry's special relationship with the American media proves it's good to be the "Spare" 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

Some publishers are even moving books to next year: Atria pushed the release of Charlotte Bismuth’s “Bad Medicine,” a nonfiction account of a criminal case involving a pill-pushing New York doctor, to January 2021. They Were Meant to Be the Season’s Big Books. Then the Virus Struck. 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

In January, a group of journalists introduced the Atavist, another online home for long-form journalism and nonfiction books. At Home on the Farm and in E-Books 2011-05-18T22:06:11Z

The National Book Foundation, which presents the awards, announced five works in each of five categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translation and young people’s literature. Novelist Lydia Millet among National Book Award finalists 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

With its new trade imprint, Ankerwycke, the bar association wants to broaden its appeal, focusing on legal fiction and more accessible nonfiction. David Lat’s ‘Supreme Ambitions’ Is a Thriller for Lawyers 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z

“I liked to read nonfiction as a kid, and a lot of the fiction I read was historical fiction,” he said. Michael Chabon and his new novel, 'Moonglow' 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

The five finalists in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature are below. The 2017 National Book Award finalists 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

The Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction book critic tries to make sense of Donald Trump’s rise to power with a self-administered syllabus of 150 books that claim to capture our current political moment. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2020 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

Director Sacha Gervasi takes the same approach to the man, the myth, the ultimate movie director in Hitchcock, his snappy adaptation of Stephen Rebello’s acclaimed nonfiction account Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho. Hitchcock: To Psycho with Love 2012-11-20T13:00:50Z

Nine were nonfiction shows — news, education, fashion, music and tech. Watchlist : All Those Online Videos, Still Chasing an Audience 2011-06-17T16:51:15Z

Diaz is expected to judge in all Pulitzer categories, which include journalism, poetry, nonfiction and music. Novelist Junot Diaz elected to Pulitzer board 2010-05-22T01:32:00Z

There are several nonfiction pieces and an excellent bibliography provides more sources and websites. 'Dracula's Guest': a superb collection of Victorian vampire stories 2010-07-21T23:46:00Z

Levingston, the nonfiction book editor of The Washington Post and the author of “Little Demon in the City of Light” and “The Kennedy Baby,” writes with passion and flair. How Martin Luther King Persuaded John Kennedy to Support the Civil Rights Cause 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

See the long lists in young people’s literature, poetry, nonfiction and fiction. The 2017 National Book Award finalists 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

A real book being, of course, nonfiction, in this case the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.” Review | A novel attempt to understand the father of the atomic bomb 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

She stressed the movie was "a nonfiction tragedy about my friend." Gay-themed film challenges boundaries in Malaysia 2010-04-08T07:01:00Z

Fussell wrote in "The Great War," his study of World War I that ranked No. 75 on the Modern Library's list of the greatest nonfiction books of the 20th century. Literary scholar Paul Fussell dead at 88 2012-05-24T01:58:08Z

For the fastest-selling nonfiction book of all time, "Spare" has done a rare feat: it lowered Harry's profile, tarnishing it in the views of many. Prince Harry will offer a livestream and bonus memoir content, but who is all this for? 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

Lively’s 21st work of fiction, “The Purple Swamp Hen,” a collection of short stories, is coming out here on May 9, and she has just finished a nonfiction book about gardening. ‘A Writer Writes’: Penelope Lively’s Fiction Defies the Test of Time 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

Friday’s announcement caps a week in which the National Book Foundation also unveiled longlists for nonfiction, translation, young people’s literature and poetry. Novels by Colson Whitehead, Marlon James on awards longlist 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

She was a lucid thinker in her nonfiction, curious and knowledgeable and reasonable, and in her fiction she showed a compassionate and moving familiarity with the contradictions of human beings. ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

In the course of telling us about the times you’ve lied, you tell us the truth. Writers, especially creative nonfiction writers, are constantly asking themselves about the relationship between truths and lies. “Lying to make life bearable”: Cheryl Strayed interviews memoirist Rob Roberge 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z

I’m a big reader, but I realized in the process of trying to write short stories that I read mostly nonfiction. Demetri Martin's new book of drawings is 'If It's Not Funny It's Art.' Do we have to pick? 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

Ebert particularly supported nonfiction films, James suggests, because “he was a newspaperman at heart. I think that what he loved about documentary was that it combined his passion for movies with his passion for journalism.” Filmmaker Steve James discusses his Roger Ebert documentary, ‘Life Itself’

Nguyen's latest book is the nonfiction study "Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War," published earlier this month by Harvard University Press. Viet Thanh Nguyen wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for 'The Sympathizer' 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

Nancy Pearl interviews Bob Dugoni about his career, which began with his nonfiction book "The Silent Canary" and continued with his successful series featuring attorney David Sloane. Video | "Book Lust with Nancy Pearl," featuring Bob Dugoni 2011-06-20T19:41:49Z

Longlists for translations, poetry, nonfiction and fiction will be unveiled over the following four days. Young people’s longlist announced for National Book Awards 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

Bourne is probably somewhere in New England but might be anywhere, really; for a nonfiction account of a place like it, read “Mill Town,” by Kerri Arsenault, set in Mexico, Maine. Review | In Laurie Frankel’s ‘One Two Three,’ three sisters are on a mission to save their town 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z

Gibson actually apologizes for his nonfiction; he admits to being tempted to the task by unrefusable opportunities to gather raw material for creating fiction. William Gibson's observations and prophesies, nonfiction version 2012-01-11T22:09:05Z

If you have ever picked up a painful novel or a nonfiction title drier than the Sahara, then I’m so sorry; I cannot promise I am not responsible. Reading a book you hate? Stop right now | Hannah Jane Parkinson 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

Aside from that book, Mitchell is now best known for two things: breaking the rules of nonfiction and an epic case of writer’s block. Review: ‘Man in Profile’ Studies Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

The best-selling fiction book was "The Help," while "Steve Jobs," the book on Apple's late founder, was the best-selling nonfiction book. Adele tops iTunes song, album charts on 2011 sales 2011-12-08T17:17:12Z

Here are the finalists for fiction, nonfiction, young people’s literature and poetry. National Book Awards Finalists Include Colson Whitehead and Viet Thanh Nguyen 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Like many series right now, this one is using a nonfiction story to approximate the power of fictional drama. ‘We Own This City’ Review: Baltimore Police Problems, Rewired 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z

In the early nineties, while in his twenties, he published stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and read Shakespeare and several Russian novels in Tamil translation. How Perumal Murugan Was Resurrected Through Writing 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

Dunn also wrote nonfiction, particularly about boxing, but "Geek Love," a cult classic, remains her most widely read book. Katherine Dunn has died; the 'Geek Love' author once took the world by storm 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

This week, the National Book Foundation is announcing longlists in all four categories of its awards – young people’s literature is to be followed by poetry, nonfiction and fiction. The 10 books in the running for the 2016 National Book Award for young people's literature 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

“A deeply humane memoir with crackles of clarifying insight, ‘Heartland’ is one of a growing number of important works … that together merit their own section in nonfiction aisles across the country: America’s postindustrial decline.” 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

Your most recent book, “Deep South,” is a nonfiction work about travelling through the American South. This Week in Fiction: Paul Theroux on the Fascination of Large Families 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

He won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and nonfiction. This is your brain on murder: What the mind of a psychopath looks like 2014-03-09T18:30:00Z

More than any other book, Jorge Luis Borges’s “Labyrinths,” which I discovered when I was 15, showed me what was possible in short prose nonfiction. Rebecca Solnit: By the Book 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

We say we value memoirs and other nonfiction works precisely because they tell us what really happened. We can’t handle the truth: “Primates of Park Avenue,” “On the Run” and nonfiction fact-checking blood baths 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

There’s also an element of judgment: journalism is not just reporting, but reporting of which I approve; not just non-fiction writing or speaking, but nonfiction writing or speaking that I deem worthy of respect. Unfortunately, John Oliver, You Are a Journalist 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

In just those few nonfiction books, you have a choice from a wide range of subject matter. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

Longlists in other categories will be announced as the week progresses: Poetry on Tuesday, nonfiction on Wednesday, and fiction on Thursday. National Book Award longlist for young adult books announced 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

Now, with “The God Equation,” No. 12 on the nonfiction list last week, Kaku turns his lens on the past. Michio Kaku Says the Universe Is Simpler Than We Think 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

It was in his nonfiction that Mr. Morton most closely examined the Austria that gave him his identity. Frederic Morton, Author and Essayist, Dies at 90 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

Those conversations, and her detailed, painful, heartbreaking — and, later, meticulously fact-checked — memories of surviving the Holocaust, are the basis of “Lily’s Promise,” which debuted at No. 2 on the paperback nonfiction list. Dov Forman Wants You to Know His Great-Grandmother’s Holocaust Story 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

Founded in 2013 to rival the prestigious Booker Prize, the Folio is open to both fiction and nonfiction published in Britain. Anna Burns, Tommy Orange up for Rathbones Folio Prize 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

The 2010 best-seller about growing up in New York's art scene won the National Book Award for nonfiction and is her most successful project yet in any format. New Yorker Smith's influence is wide 2012-06-08T13:30:18Z

That one is nonfiction, of course, but it is about fiction — and about politics — so it sits comfortably on the shelf with the rest of these books. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

Collectively, in “My Seditious Heart,” they remind us that many of the flaws in her nonfiction recur and persist. The Prescient Anger of Arundhati Roy 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z

The forthcoming year may also find the artist publishing a second poetry book, "Glaring Through Oblivion," and starting work on a nonfiction title. System of a Down's Tankian explores new "Harmonies" 2010-08-21T01:04:00Z

Passing across racial boundaries is a longstanding theme in American fiction and the subject of several riveting nonfiction books. Reading About Racial Boundaries 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

But "every time I wrote fiction, I was discouraged, and every time I wrote nonfiction, I was encouraged," he recalls. Author Ron Chernow explores the fascinating evolution of George Washington 2010-10-06T23:19:00Z

But in fact I see the book as my journey myself, not as a fiction book but as a nonfiction book. A Word With: Paul Coelho Discusses ?Aleph,? His New Novel 2011-09-26T15:54:10Z

The book was a finalist for the Samuel Johnson Prize, Britain's leading nonfiction book award. The 2010 Pulitzer Prize winners 2010-04-12T22:55:00Z

“Is it possible that the Nobel committee might finally reverse the ignoble treatment of what we call ‘nonfiction writing’ and admit that it is literature?” Svetlana Alexievich Is Rare Nonfiction Winner of Nobel 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

But so long as we are, a comparatively smaller share of the nonfiction winners – 12 and ½ – were written by women. ArtsBeat Blog: The 10 Best Books of 2011 2011-11-30T15:00:37Z

Last fall, her first book topped nonfiction charts in France for six weeks in a row — dislodged only by the appearance of the first volume of Barack Obama’s memoirs. A YouTuber Shoots to Literary Fame in France, Ruffling Feathers 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z

Ms. Rich, a nonfiction writer and magazine editor, was far from your stereotypical victim. ‘The Hand That Feeds You,’ a Thriller Written as an Act of Love for Its Originator 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

It is so good, and I say this in possession of a bookcase full of World War I and World War II nonfiction. Remembering the ‘Good War’ and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

One can’t tell yet whether nonfiction novels like Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” and Norman Mailer’s “The Executioner’s Song” will last as long. The joy of literary destruction: Writers who broke all the rules 2014-01-19T15:00:00Z

That perspective was transformed into box-office gold in the film “Mean Girls,” Ms. Fey’s first screenplay, based on a nonfiction book about the perils of popularity by Rosalind Wiseman and directed by Mark Waters. Review: ‘Mean Girls’ Sets the Perils of Being Popular to Song 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z

The book that blurred the lines between novels and nonfiction is as complicated and ambitious as anything you’ll ever read. Top Reads from Ann Patchett's New Bookstore 2011-12-05T17:50:00.930Z

But you, at least in your nonfiction, seem more than willing to take on this explanatory role. How Covid Got Gish Jen Thinking About China 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z

The publishing industry counts on platforms such as Instagram to help spread the word about this season’s must-read novel or nonfiction blockbuster. Perspective | Books have become the new ‘it’ fashion accessory. Is that such a bad thing? 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

Mr. Coates’s best-selling book about what it means to be black in America today, written in the form of a letter to his son, is among the nonfiction finalists. Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hanya Yanagihara Among National Book Award Finalists 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

This volume of nonfiction by the acclaimed story writer and novelist collects book reviews, personal essays, political pieces and ruminations on TV series like “True Detective” and “Friday Night Lights.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

“Forever Young” appears at No. 9 in its first week on the hardcover nonfiction list. Optimism Rears Its Sunny Head on the Best-Seller List 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

Two nonfiction books tackle the timely issue of inequality: one from the point of view of constitutional governance, the other from the perspective of your dental health. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

His fifth book, “Until the End of Time,” just spent three weeks on the hardcover nonfiction list. A Scientist Puts Things in Perspective 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

"No standards exist for drawing the line where `fiction' becomes `nonfiction' or vice versa; and the courts are not a proper place for developing such standards or policing that line," Ralph wrote. Author faces civil suit over 'Three Cups of Tea' 2012-04-18T11:46:04Z

The prize, Britain's most prestigious for nonfiction, was won last year by Philip Hoare's study of whales, Leviathan. Samuel Johnson shortlist spurns war stories and biographies 2010-05-25T23:01:00Z

This friend pushed on me Donleavy’s “The Unexpurgated Code: A Complete Manual of Survival and Manners,” a nonfiction book issued in 1975. A Toast for J. P. Donleavy 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

Buzz Books 2022: Spring/Summer was released Tuesday by the industry newsletter Publishers Marketplace and includes dozens of previews for fiction and nonfiction. Free e-book previews new Bissinger, Hamid and other works 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z

Many books fall into this category, both nonfiction and fiction. Books to Inspire Hunger and Thirst 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

That love — for people, their environments, their struggles and the art form with which he explored them — informed every frame of Demme’s films, whether they were nonfiction or fiction. Perspective | Jonathan Demme, the last of the great journeyman directors 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

Moving National Geographic into scripted content, such as adaptations of nonfiction books, is a big departure for the company’s mission. National Geographic goes Hollywood! (In its own sort of way.) 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

In “The Taking of Jemima Boone,” the historical mystery author Matthew Pearl makes his nonfiction debut with a factual thriller about the kidnapping of the famous frontiersman Daniel Boone’s daughter Jemima in 1776. What the Kidnapping of Daniel Boone’s Daughter Tells Us About Life on the Frontier 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

Beard, who teaches creative nonfiction at Sarah Lawrence College, imagines her way into anything. Review | Jo Ann Beard, best known for her New Yorker essay about a shooting, returns with a beautiful new collection 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

Preston, known for his best-selling nonfiction work about the Ebola virus, "The Hot Zone," used Crichton's outline, reference materials and notes to finish the book. New Crichton novel, 'Micro,' coming in fall 2011-05-22T15:16:06Z

John Munch in the gritty cop series "Homicide: Life on the Street," a show with nonfiction roots that tried to expose the ugly reality of Baltimore police work. "He did not suffer fools": Honoring Richard Belzer, the stand-up conspiracy theorist 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z

AP: “The Soul of a Woman” is your first nonfiction book in more than a decade. Q&A: Isabel Allende on feminism, TV series, love in pandemic 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

An early fan of “Barney Miller” was Joseph Wambaugh, the author of novels like “The New Centurions” and nonfiction works like “The Onion Field.” ?Barney Miller? Remains on the Beat in a Complete DVD Set 2011-10-29T04:00:09Z

In his column, Lozada, a finalist for the criticism Pulitzer last year, often reviews multiple nonfiction books about a common subject, bucking the traditional one-book-per-review format. Washington Post wins Pulitzer Prizes for criticism, photography; affiliated cartoonist also honored 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

They answer: fantasy, funny, comics, mystery, nonfiction, etc. Perspective | What are we teaching boys when we discourage them from reading books about girls? 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

None of the above seems, mercifully, to apply to nonfiction. For William Gibson, Seeing the Future Is Easy. But the Past? 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

And yet they contain only highlights from a bibliography that comprises poetry, translations, and a lot more wonderful fiction and nonfiction. At 86, Ursula K. Le Guin is finally getting the recognition she deserves — almost 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

“Feral,” a 2013 best-selling nonfiction book by environmentalist George Monbiot, advocates the “rewilding” of Britain and Europe, bringing back extinct beavers, lynxes and wolves — solving the problem of deer overpopulation and increasing tourism. In northeast England, learning about birds of prey and their high-flying ways

While writing my memoir based in part on the Partition and my parents' childhood, I hunted for nonfiction books and memoirs written by witnesses, but when I found little, I turned to fiction and poetry. 5 books and films that tell the story of the trauma of the Partition of India and its aftermath 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z

For the most part, we read a work of nonfiction for two intertwined reasons — to learn about a particular subject and to enjoy the intellectual company of the book’s author. ‘Grand Hotel Abyss’: Life among the original anti-consumerists 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

“Three Girls from Bronzeville,” Dawn Turner’s first work of nonfiction, uses the trope of little Black girls inventing and reinventing themselves at certain points in history to help define the era and the country. Review | ‘Three Girls from Bronzeville’ is a story about growing up on Chicago’s South Side — and so much more 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

The author of more than two dozen books spanning fiction, nonfiction and poetry, she has often rebuilt the past for her characters. The Execution That Changed New Zealand 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

Burleigh, a contributing editor at Elle, lives in New York; Publisher's Weekly called her book " a powerful example of narrative nonfiction." Local books: buried secrets, Amanda Knox's travails, time-traveling and BC parks 2011-08-08T21:32:03Z

Steve Weinberg is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the author of eight nonfiction books. ‘The Roberts Court:’ informed look at today’s Supreme Court 2013-06-12T22:35:07Z

In this finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction, Ms. Hochschild looks closely at Tea Party supporters in Louisiana. 6 Books to Help Understand Trump’s Win 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

He noted wryly that he was turned down for the first job he applied for at The Post in 2004 — editor of nonfiction book reviews. Washington Post wins Pulitzer Prizes for criticism, photography; affiliated cartoonist also honored 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

The latest in a line of executives charged with turning Lifetime around is Nancy Dubuc, who made History a success with breezy nonfiction hits such as "Ice Road Truckers" and "Pawn Stars." Other networks aimed at women waiting for OWN 2010-12-20T14:04:17Z

She has written La Seduction, a nonfiction account of how important the idea of seduction is to all aspects of French life. Critic?s Notebook: Books to Bury Yourself In 2011-05-26T22:07:19Z

She graduated from the Vermont College campus of Norwich University, received a master’s degree in creative nonfiction from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and later received a master’s degree in creative writing from Dartmouth. Kelley McKenna, Bradford Atwood 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z

And though he wrote many books over his lifetime, including a celebrated work of nonfiction, “Son of the Morning Star,” it’s his sublime first novel that I turn to. In Praise of Evan S. Connell 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

So he urged her to write a nonfiction book about her creative process — a collection of essays, perhaps, or a compilation of emails she’d written to him. Amy Tan, the Reluctant Memoirist 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

Machado has described herself as a “form vampire,” obsessed with structures, real and narrative, and with mingling techniques from fiction and nonfiction. ‘In the Dream House’ Recounts an Abusive Relationship Using Dozens of Genres 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

For Mr. Porterfield “Putty Hill” was an opportunity to re-examine the traditional divide between fiction and nonfiction. Film: Indie Filmmaker?s Seat-of-the-Pants Solutions 2011-02-12T06:33:51Z

Previously, Bulger was the loose inspiration for Jack Nicholson's character in Martin Scorsese's "The Departed" and will be portrayed by Johnny Depp in Scott Cooper's film adaptation of the nonfiction book "Black Mass." Whitey Bulger: An American crime drama 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

He was also, for a period beginning in the mid-1980s and lasting well into the span covered by “The Rub of Time,” his new collection of nonfiction, a famous British novelist. In His New Collection, ‘The Rub of Time,’ Martin Amis Takes On Everyone From Travolta to Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

With its weave of interviews and on-the-street scenes — and, notably, a female voice-over — “I Am Somebody” is an exemplar of a certain nonfiction approach. A Film Series Honors Black Women Directors 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

Her listlessness reinforced my conclusion that Didion will be best remembered for her autobiographical nonfiction where she crisply parses and delineates her feelings and observations. Review | A new collection of Joan Didion’s work reminds us that she is her most memorable character 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

In France, the book was the best-selling nonfiction title in the week after its release in February and was No. 2 for the next eight weeks. Cultural Studies: Elisabeth Badinter Defends the Imperfect Mother 2010-06-04T19:00:00Z

Christopher Beha’s review shed an illuminating light on Mann’s nonfiction writings and the evolution of his political and artistic views over time. British Nuns, General Motors and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

The things I enjoyed writing were more creative nonfiction, and I knew my career would not survive that. From grad school to social work 2013-02-11T01:00:00Z

Two of the nonfiction finalists examined the world of health care and medicine. Here Are This Year’s National Book Award Finalists 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z

Speaking of Harlem, its native son James Baldwin’s nonfiction could knock anyone’s socks off and does in this reissue that includes some of his best essays. 10 books to read in September 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z

A blend of memoir, criticism, and detective nonfiction, it begins with Cumming’s trip to Madrid following the death of her father, an artist who, in the ravages of illness, lost his sight. What We’re Reading This Summer 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

Fox says she can still write, but only nonfiction. Paula Fox looks back on a wayward life 2011-05-05T10:32:09Z

Another lineage flows through the book: the theme that unites Patchett’s fiction and nonfiction. In Ann Patchett’s New Novel, a Glass House and a Family With Things to Hide 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z

My workshops are solely concerned with the craft of writing both fiction and nonfiction. ArtsBeat: The Life of Jesus: Reza Aslan Talks About ‘Zealot’ 2013-08-02T20:42:32Z

In short, “The War of Jenkins’ Ear” is a superb example of what the French call haute vulgarisation, that is, a serious nonfiction work designed to be read for pleasure. Review | If you like action-packed historical novels, ‘The War of Jenkins’ Ear’ is just the book for you 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z

Only 9 percent cited movies or fictional TV shows, while the greatest portion, 37 percent, said history texts and nonfiction books. 50 years on, finding profit in `truth' on JFK case 2013-05-11T16:07:15Z

And documentary experts who frequently consider ethical questions in nonfiction films are sharply divided. Bourdain documentary’s use of AI to mimic voice draws questions 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z

In 1970 she turned to nonfiction with “A Great Fall: A Murder and Its Consequences.” Mildred Savage, Author of ?Parrish,? Dies at 92 2011-10-13T05:39:18Z

In this imaginative nonfiction effusion, Ackroyd has paid an equally memorable homage to his own city. 'London Underground': Ackroyd's account of life beneath the streets 2011-12-01T00:46:04Z

I imagine there are complicated considerations that go into writing about your children, on top of all the other complicated considerations that we'll get into about writing nonfiction. Maggie Smith on her memoir's unanswerable questions and feeling ambivalent about "Good Bones" 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z

Now we get her only story collection, previously released in Britain, showing that whether writing nonfiction or fiction, Diski remained witty, subversive and determined to tell her truth even when it was difficult. New books by dead authors 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

At the outlets of Barbara’s Bookstore, an independent chain mostly in the Chicago area, the book is No. 1 on the store’s nonfiction best-seller list. Boy?s Tale of Heaven Is Publishing Phenomenon 2011-03-11T12:25:34Z

Gay is a writer attuned to inequality, a condition she explores in fiction and nonfiction. Roxane Gay's 'An Untamed State' gives torture survivor a voice 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

After all, novels are lumbering beasts next to fleet-footed books of political nonfiction. Review | In Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Unsheltered,’ Trump is just the latest threat to Earth’s survival 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

So, just say yes to whatever books interest your children — even if you’d prefer to see them reading the latest Newbery Medal-winning novel instead of “how to” nonfiction books, graphic novels or formulaic series books. Perspective | Yes, parents, there is a magic formula to keep your kids reading through the summer 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

How do you think writing nonfiction contributed to how you write fiction? Essayist Sloane Crosley reveals the literary bad man who inspired her first novel 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

Three winners were announced for each of three categories: fiction, nonfiction and drama. 9 authors and playwrights receive $150K Yale prize 2013-03-04T16:34:12Z

Entering our nonfiction bestseller list this week at No. 7 is “From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death” by Caitlin Doughty. Books: Surviving the California wildfires, George Saunders wins the Man Booker and more 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z

But bumping up against the stranger-than-fiction dictum is another that is the bane of nonfiction writers everywhere: Truth often takes disappointing turns. War — What Is It Good For? Chemotherapy, Apparently 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

Apology’s content, a mix of fiction, literary nonfiction, photography and cultural reporting, ranges from the comedic to the arcane. Jesse Pearson, an Editor in His Third Act 2013-02-01T22:54:46Z

Below is a complete list of the 2019 nominees in five categories: fiction, nonfiction, translated literature, young people’s literature and poetry. Colson Whitehead, Marlon James in Running for National Book Awards 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

“The Big Short,” based on the nonfiction book by Michael Lewis, looks at a group of hedge-fund managers and banking executives who bet against America’s housing market in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis. Adam McKay Narrates a Scene From ‘The Big Short’ 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

“There Is Simply Too Much to Think About” is a slightly pruned, and then greatly expanded, version of “It All Adds Up,” Bellow’s nonfiction compendium of 1994. ‘There Is Simply Too Much to Think About,’ Saul Bellow’s Nonfiction 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

That is her first foray away from nonfiction. T Magazine: The Unlikely Activist 2013-05-29T15:00:48Z

While kicking against these rough tides, Mr. McBride, 58, also took on his most grueling professional assignment: a nonfiction book about the singer James Brown. Godfather of Soul Inspires the Spirit of James McBride to Write a Biography 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

Sepetys hopes to convince her publisher to use these stories in a nonfiction companion to "Between Shades of Gray." 'Between Shades of Gray' reveals horror and hope 2011-06-04T02:35:04Z

How does that work in the context of a nonfiction travel book? Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z

There was a rights situation with this story, which is not normally a thing in nonfiction. "Free Solo" filmmakers recreated Thai soccer team cave rescue: "A massive and chaotic operation" 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

And we meet the beautiful, mysterious, witchy Eve Black, whose name may be meant to recall “The Three Faces of Eve,” the nonfiction classic about a woman with multiple personalities. Stephen King and Son Team Up for a Novel About Women Whose Sleep Should Not Be Disturbed 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z

A room at the back of the house has been given over to nonfiction. A Scene Right Out of Philip Roth: His Books Come Home to Newark’s Library 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

It would feature our first true @ narrator, writing in a voice that only seemed like unvarnished nonfiction opinion at the time. The Great American Twitter Novel 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

Unlike the other Bigs, which limit themselves to fiction, this one leads off with several nonfiction pieces that summarize and interpret what we know or surmise about Jack and his crimes. More than 125 years after his last crime, Jack the Ripper remains a mystery 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gooch, whose literary output includes biographies of Frank O’Hara and Flannery O’Connor, three novels and other nonfiction, leads a far more stable and traditional life than that of his youth. In the Gritty New York of the ’70s and ’80s, Not Exactly a Model Life 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

I am a poet and nonfiction writer of Armenian ancestry and have been to Armenia five times in the past decade. My Armenia 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

In addition to writing her novels and nonfiction, she has been a prolific art and literary critic — she’s written more than 100 book reviews for The New York Times alone. ‘I’m Easily Bored by Books,’ Says Writer of 22 Novels 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z

The trouble with “Answered Prayers” is that Capote at this stage was not amenable to the demands of nonfiction. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

I’ve emerged from writing nonfiction not feeling stuck, but with a feeling of freedom. How Covid Got Gish Jen Thinking About China 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z

Like all her works, “Voices From Chernobyl” is nonfiction, based on years of interviews, but it has sophisticated literary qualities. Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Laureate of Russian Misery, Has an English-Language Milestone 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

But I mostly read nonfiction books focusing on whatever topic I am trying to learn about. Jane Fonda Likes to Curl Up With a Good Book, Among the Dead 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

Twentieth Century Fox is also developing a rival movie about the bombing, "Boston Strong," based on Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge's nonfiction book. Mark Wahlberg, CBS making Boston Marathon bombing film 'Patriots' Day' 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

This “annihilated perspective,” as Cusk called it, was a solution to the crisis of exposure she’d encountered in nonfiction. Rachel Cusk Said She Was Done With Autobiography. These Essays Suggest Otherwise. 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

Smith is the author, most recently, of the nonfiction book "Naked at Lunch" and the novel "Raw: A Love Story." In 'Innocents and Others' Dana Spiotta explores the creative tensions between two female filmmakers 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

Now, in “Tibetan Peach Pie,” his first full-length work of nonfiction, Robbins draws back the veil from his own personal history and offers a lively, impressionistic account of a life well-lived. ‘Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life,’ by Tom Robbins

Only one work of nonfiction appears on this list, and of course it must be that perennial bestseller “How to Win Friends and Influence People.” Analysis | New York Public Library’s most checked-out books say a lot about what we read and why 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z

Grace Paley’s collection of nonfiction writings “Just as I Thought” contains a brief memoir of what it was like to live in the United States back when abortions were illegal. A Novel That Asks, What if Abortion Were Again Illegal? 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z

I just continued to write nonfiction as if I was writing thrillers. I like my imagined literary nemesis 2013-06-01T22:30:00Z

Publishers today acknowledge that people are reading less fiction, but say that they’re compensating by buying more nonfiction, especially political nonfiction. Why Aren’t People Buying Much Fiction These Days? 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

Some 7 to 10 nonfiction series are being developed for the evening hours when the Wall Street ticker goes quiet. CNBC tries reality TV after business hours 2013-03-04T21:13:14Z

I felt woken up and alive to wanting to participate in that conversation about these questions through nonfiction. "The Third Rainbow Girl" author on the true story of a double murder she didn't set out to write 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z

It’s been fun, while reading Amis’s nonfiction over the years, to track the TTN — the time to Nabokov — of his individual books. In Fiction, Martin Amis Summons His Literary Friends and Role Models 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z

Setting: A different kind of organized crime drama, based on the nonfiction book "Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City." So it's the final show? How to wrap a TV series up 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

The conceits of creative nonfiction seep into nearly every sentence. A Paralyzed Army Vet Walks Again. Is He Healed — or Is It a Hoax? 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

The Punisher’s drive to simply kill anyone who seems to deserve it is extremely hard to countenance on the heels of multiple horrible shootings available for viewing in current nonfiction programming. The Punisher: was there ever a right time for Netflix's gun-toting vigilante show? 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

A few years ago, National Geographic magazine compiled a list of the 100 greatest works of nonfiction adventure. Review | For a snowy day, a winter classic 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

Fiction, generally, is allowed to stun and depress but there is pressure on nonfiction to offer consolation or at least guidance. Three New Books Explore the Machinery of the Mind 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z

The nonfiction is harder: There are a few clear subcategories, e.g. books about World War II, but mostly it’s a mess. Emily St. John Mandel Will Read Anything, if She Likes It 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

In September, two months after the debut of "The Bear," Edward Chisholm released his nonfiction book "A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City." From "The Bear" to "The Menu," this was the year pop culture faced the horrors of fine dining 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z

Editors at The Times Book Review selected the best fiction and nonfiction titles of the year. A Roving History of Mortals Considered Gods 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

Her new collection, “My Seditious Heart” gathers two decades of her nonfiction writings, beginning after the debut novel and concluding before her return to fiction in 2017 with “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.” Arundhati Roy — beloved for her fiction, derided for her politics — won’t be silenced 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

Jane Kirtley, an expert on the media, cautioned that nonfiction podcasts from sources other than news organizations or academic institutions were not necessarily impartial. The Latest Entry in the True-Crime Serial Market: Copcasts 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z

I am a poet and creative nonfiction writer whose PhD dissertation creatively and critically explores the effects of cultural memory and trauma within the Black tradition. The awakening of the American white mind 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z

All that said, there are plenty of nonfiction writers who don’t think of what they do as art; simply delivering information shouldn’t make someone a candidate for the Nobel. The Nobel Prize in Literature Takes This Year Off. Our Critics Don’t. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

After Apollo 13 came out in 1995, Hanks pitched From the Earth to the Moon to HBO as a hybrid of nonfiction and entertainment, and the network gave him a green light. Tom Hanks on 'Pacific' HBO Series, World War II, History 2010-03-04T23:55:00Z

His brief return to television now, for a single episode of a nonfiction series about global warming, is the result of a process that began while he was still hosting “Late Show.” David Letterman (and His Beard) Shop at Target These Days 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

When did you first decide to cross from fiction to nonfiction? Spike Lee: 'Race relations today are the direct result of having a black president' 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

The following month-by-month list of titles being released now through November is categorized by fiction and nonfiction and alphabetized by author. Fall books: 37 new titles to add to your reading list 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

Sentimentality is conspicuously absent in this short nonfiction page-turner, arriving on shelves in time for Father's Day. Golf stories: an oasis and metaphor for the multiple rounds of life 2011-06-15T19:39:04Z

This year includes 99 features and 69 shorts, fiction and nonfiction, from around the world, which gives movie lovers the chance to roam widely, to affirm their taste and sometimes to have it challenged. New York Film Festival Is a Feast for True Believers 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

Of “Wax in Our World,” a nonfiction book for young adults, Kelly said, “Who came into a publisher’s office and said, you know, the kids really need a book about wax?” Weeding the Worst Library Books 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

"Balloons Over Broadway" is definitely fun to read, but it's also a model nonfiction book for young readers. Award-winning nonfiction books for young readers 2012-02-21T05:12:14Z

Similarly, the audience needs to remember that nonfiction filmmaking is an art form — not journalism, or a Wikipedia entry, or just-the-facts testimony that would pass muster in a court of law. Documentary filmmakers need to be accountable to their sources and viewers 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Moonlighting as a nonfiction professor, I taught fellow misfits to explore their obsessions, chronicle their humiliating secrets, harnessing the power of artful reinvention. A spy in the house of my first love 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z

A work of nonfiction and not satire, it included a facsimile of Washington’s ledger itemizing cases of Madeira for personal use and military outlays for his army’s frequent, if occasionally strategic, advances to the rear. Marvin Kitman, Satirist Whose Main Target Was TV, Dies at 93 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

“And it is one of the few nonfiction films that will have you walking out humming the score, if you’re not running to the nearest store to buy Motown CDs.” Paul Justman, Who Shed Light on Motown’s Unsung Heroes, Dies at 74 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z

Her nonfiction books cover the histories of Hawaii, New England and the murder sites of various American presidents. The Carpetbagger: My Oscar Picks: Sarah Vowell 2012-02-23T20:24:02Z

Its finalists in six categories — fiction, nonfiction, poetry, biography, criticism and autobiography — are selected by an elected 24-member board, which also selects the winners. National Book Critics Circle announces finalists, but misses one of the biggest novels of 2016 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

And yet it does strike me that it’s hard to get that quotidian kind of grocery-shopping stuff into a nonfiction narrative. Masha and Keith Gessen on Writing About Russia 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z

“Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace”: Divorce, Victorian-style Topics: , , , , Kate Summerscale’s books are a balm to the wary narrative nonfiction reader, proof that not every good true story rests on a foundation of tweaked facts. “Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace”: Divorce, Victorian-style 2012-06-18T01:00:00Z

He does not ever mention by title “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” the ostensibly nonfiction Off Broadway hit whose fabrications, once exposed, were a self-inflicted gouge in Mr. Daisey’s career. Mike Daisey on Shakespeare and His Own Failings 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

The most chilling nonfiction spy story unfolds in cyberspace. Books of The Times: ‘Granddad, There’s a Head on the Beach’ and Other Summer Reads 2012-05-24T22:43:29Z

Others show up in his nonfiction books on logic and the fourth dimension such as "Infinity and the Mind." New in science fiction: the dreams and visions of outsiders and misfits 2012-03-28T19:31:05Z

I have a novel in mind, but I like to brood quite a lot before I start writing fiction, so I have a nonfiction project to write in the interim. ArtsBeat: Q. & A.: John Lanchester on 'Capital' 2012-06-13T16:28:11Z

And nonfiction that covers very big topics — democracy versus oligarchy in America, five centuries of hurricanes and a German couple who helped lead the resistance against the Nazis. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

The nonfiction film “ Flee, ” about an Afghan refugee, got best animated film, while the documentary award went to Questlove’s “ Summer of Soul,” which chronicles a largely forgotten music festival in the summer of 1969. LA film critics pick ‘Drive My Car’ as year’s best 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z

Audiences’ appetite for nonfiction has grown as new funding sources like Kickstarter have emerged, and new formats, like podcasts. HBO Documentary Has Competition. These Women Don’t Seem Worried. 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z

Last year, Yale University Press published “Pedigree,” his 2005 nonfiction account of his origins. Patrick Modiano, an Author of Paris Mysteries, Keeps His Own 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

In October, 1967, Mailer went to the March on the Pentagon—an ebullient protest against the war in Vietnam—and produced his nonfiction masterpiece, “Armies of the Night.” A Great Writer at the 1968 Democratic Disaster 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z

In “Devil in the Grove,” which won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, Gilbert King wrote about Marshall’s heroic trial work. It’s Thurgood Marshall to the Rescue in a New Thriller 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

For nonfiction films, traditionally ignored at the Oscars in everything but the actual documentary categories, a song has meant a 100 percent increase in their Academy Award chances. Pinning Academy Award Hopes on a Powerful Song 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

Admittedly, the contenders for the fiction and nonfiction prizes attract the most buzz. Review | ‘You Play the Girl,’ by Carina Chocano, up for big book award this week 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

Like their fictional counterparts, nonfiction films tend to obey conventions of genre, and in recent years most of them have followed a handful of familiar models. Captivating Films, Complicated Truths 2011-07-23T00:03:17Z

It's the first of a three-series deal between the network and the busy nonfiction production company Pilgrim Studios. Sarah Palin to host outdoors show 2013-12-09T20:47:55Z

Her first nonfiction work, “Secrets of a Bogart Queen,” will follow. Foot soldiers and unheralded leaders of the Black Panthers 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Here’s a list of compelling nonfiction books about war and comedy, religion and terrorism, spies and deadly diseases. Facts rule: 8 great nonfiction books 2013-06-14T17:29:09Z

These books established Ms. Manguso’s modus operandi as a nonfiction writer. Review: Sarah Manguso Offers Crumbs Relating to Her Diary 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

It made possible a whole new genre of nonfiction - highly readable deconstructions of how regulatory and moral gaps spawn financial excess and contributed to the collapse. Review: Personal finance industry gets drubbing 2013-01-14T17:41:13Z

In his 20s, he hosted a radio program devoted to rock music and published nonfiction in La Jornada, the country’s most politically engaged newspaper. A Chronicle of Mexico City and Its Multitudes 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

Alphabetically, with different sections for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and etc. Michael Cunningham Thinks Most People Misunderstand ‘Lolita’ 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

“The Premonition” will join a growing body of nonfiction exploring the pandemic and its impact. From Michael Lewis, a ‘Superhero Story’ About the Pandemic 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

Since 1978, Icarus has offered a haven for nonfiction films that are at once socially conscious and supremely artful. 4 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

Davis’s eight novels bear little relationship to anything that might be lassoed into the category of “contemporary fiction,” and “Aurelia, Aurélia” — her first work of nonfiction — is also an outlier. This Memoir About the Contradictions of Grief Plays by Its Own Rules 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

While many august literary organizations choose the year’s finest novel or best work of nonfiction, the National Book Critics Circle includes among its annual prizes an award for the best work of criticism. The National Book Critics Circle finalists in criticism award 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z

Mr. Pirsig described the work as a “nonfiction book embedded in a novel” but said that it made “no difference” to him how his publisher marketed it. Robert M. Pirsig, best-selling author of ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,’ dies at 88 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

Her nonfiction allows us access to her process as her letters puzzle over questions of craft. Review | Two new books bring Lucia Berlin back to life 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

Ms. Barnard was speaking last month at a coffee shop here, where she was presenting “The Arbor” at the True/False Film Festival, a showcase of nonfiction film. Lip-Syncing the Realities of a Tragic Life 2011-04-22T23:43:02Z

Some things seem better suited for nonfiction, and others seem to be fiction in content or nature. Evan Connell, 88, Novelist in Multiple Genres 2013-01-11T04:50:32Z

Which raises the question: What is gangster rap, a genre made by actors, or nonfiction rap made by gangsters? Friday Favorites, authenticity edition: The Head and the Heart, Avatar, Salem 2010-09-24T19:06:00Z

The mum, Meredith Hooper, is an academic and an author; her work includes books for children and nonfiction about Antarctica, where she is headed next for a months-long research stint. The Carpetbagger: It?s Back to the Studio, as Oscar Season Ends 2011-03-02T23:27:13Z

In his nonfiction, Ngugi has documented his own period of politically motivated imprisonment. Review | ‘The Perfect Nine,’ by perennial Nobel Prize favorite Ngugi wa Thiong’o, is a mythic look at his culture’s origins 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z

There’s far more to news and nonfiction today than who-what-where-when-why reporting. Unfortunately, John Oliver, You Are a Journalist 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

I stuck to fiction to keep things manageable, though there is lots of wonderful nonfiction. How Karen Joy Fowler’s Grandfather Lied His Way Into a Who’s Who 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

The whole quest to take down a nonfiction writer seems to be like this game that a lot of interviewers like to play because it gets them play. I like my imagined literary nemesis 2013-06-01T22:30:00Z

He has published more than a dozen nonfiction books, mostly on science and social history. Design: The Look of Letters 2010-12-05T15:00:00Z

A nonfiction exploration of growing up as L.G.B.T.Q., this title addresses a variety of issues including sex, politics and stereotypes. Book Banning Efforts Surged in 2021. These Titles Were the Most Targeted. 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z

This week, the latest installment in the genre, “American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump,” by Tim Alberta, enters the nonfiction list at No. 2. How Did We Get From Compassionate Conservatism to the Party of Trump? 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

The company was comfortable allowing its characters in a nonfiction film by Mr. Williams. ‘Life, Animated’ Shares a Family’s True Fairy Tale 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

He specialized in high-end fiction and literary nonfiction, acquiring many books that became bestsellers and canonical works of literature. Timothy Seldes, editor and literary agent, dies at 88 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

It switches nimbly between documentary, animation, music and short film to try to capture a reality for which fiction and nonfiction alone are insufficient. Review: ‘Random Acts of Flyness’ Is a Striking Dream Vision of Race 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

Problematically, Greenfield uses plenty of the same language in her fiction and nonfiction. 2121: A Tale from the Next Century by Susan Greenfield – review 2013-07-21T10:00:00Z

One possible model was “Just Kids” by Patti Smith, which became a best seller and won a National Book Award for nonfiction. Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth Writes About Her Band and Breakups 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

As I grew up, my interest in reading — particularly of nonfiction — became more specialized. Why the Nobel-Winning Economist Amartya Sen Recommends ‘King Lear’ 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z

The nonfiction in “Let Me Tell You” is similarly slight, and not because it’s often about topics like housework. Review: ‘Let Me Tell You’ Collects Early Works by Shirley Jackson 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

He was exploring a similar nonfiction idea with the remaining Beatles when Bowie died, and a call with Bowie’s longtime business manager, Bill Zysblat, resurrected the film. A Filmmaker Explores David Bowie’s Life and Finds Clarity About His Own 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

Mr. Sides writes in forceful, dignified, obscenity-free language and creates the momentum of a tightly constructed nonfiction film. Books of The Times: Hampton Sides?s ?Hellhound on His Trail? Traces Martin Luther King Jr.?s Killer 2010-04-21T22:24:00Z

Five years later, the New Yorker book critic Edmund Wilson published “The Crack-Up,” a collection of Fitzgerald’s nonfiction, which created renewed interest in the novelist’s work. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Imperfect Romance with The New Yorker 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z

"There's something very escapist about 'The Jinx' and about true-crime movies in general," said documentary expert Thom Powers, who programs nonfiction films at a half-dozen festivals, including the Toronto International Film Festival. Andrew Jarecki's 'The Jinx' marks documentaries' big shift in real time 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

Simple enough, but it suddenly gave a new twist to Ms. Didion’s large body of nonfiction, much of it written in the first person. Critic’s Notebook: Lincoln Center Screens Bygone Lieder Performances 2014-02-07T22:15:35Z

On Wednesday, “Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City” was named the winner of the $10,000 Lukas Book Prize for an outstanding nonfiction work of “American political or social concern.” ‘Invisible Child’ is among winners of Lukas book prizes 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

Olivia Laing is known for meandering, critical yet personal nonfiction, drawing upon the lives and work of others to explore a central question, from loneliness to addiction. Olivia Laing’s Latest Subject Is Bodily Integrity 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z

Amanda Cook, the vice president and editorial director of Crown, said that an audio release offered a way to set the project apart from Larson’s nonfiction. Erik Larson Has a Scary Story He’d Like You to Hear 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

The following summer, I learned that the library had a book by Lois Duncan that I had missed, because it was shelved in the nonfiction section: “Who Killed My Daughter?” I Know What I Read That Summer 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

"Those students who never really liked fiction find this to be delicious and those who hate fiction and love nonfiction find this to be delicious." Titanic a magnet for kids, fine line for educators 2012-03-21T16:27:11Z

The other nonfiction finalist was Justin Spring's "Secret Historian," a biography of the gay author and collector Samuel Steward. Franzen not among book award finalists 2010-10-13T15:47:00Z

It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1919 and regularly ranks among the finest American nonfiction works of the 20th century. The Brilliant, Bitter, Unlikable Scion of an American Political Dynasty 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

I’m not speaking about the writers of the feminist movement or the nonfiction writers for the 1970s or ’80s. Gay Talese Goes Through the Twitter Wringer 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

Jarecki, director of other nonfiction films such as "Why We Fight," critiques drug policies, courts, prisons and their impact on minorities. Documentary makers spur calls to action at Sundance 2012-01-24T23:22:40Z

For those playing catch-up, Michael Lewis’s “Flash Boys” is the most urgent nonfiction horror story of the year. A Critic’s Survey of Summer Books 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

It may be surprising that a nonfiction book for kids about a venerated, centuries-old document contains some of the doomsaying of a dystopian thriller. Talking to kids about the Constitution and other best books for young readers 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

The book critics circle, which already gives out prizes for fiction, nonfiction, poetry and criticism, was founded in 1974 and has around 500 members. Book critics to give award for best debut work 2013-05-29T10:09:09Z

When I remark that “Artful” is clumsy, what I mean is this: This book’s fictional and nonfiction aspects don’t mingle comfortably. Books of The Times: ‘Artful,’ by Ali Smith, a Novel With a Ghost 2013-01-22T20:49:36Z

Chief national correspondent for The New York Times Magazine, Leibovich is in town with “Big Game: The NFL In Dangerous Times,” his new nonfiction about the now-troubled world of professional football. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for September 2018 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

When a nonfiction book bends under the weight of data dumping, I tend to fault the editor rather than the writer. ‘Meet Me by the Fountain’ Takes a Tour of the Mall 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

There is an emerging subgenre of British nonfiction in which journalists from The Guardian fearlessly recount their own derring-do in David-and-Goliath battles waged against omnipotent state interests in the pursuit of Big Important Truths. ‘Hack Attack’ Puts a Spotlight on Rupert Murdoch 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

I was one of only a few novelists in a tent filled with nonfiction authors. Why a Book Tour Is More Brutal Than a Political Campaign 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z

Determined to earn his living with his typewriter, Silverberg then began to produce fiction and nonfiction at an astonishing rate, using both his own name and an unknown number of pseudonyms. Robert Silverberg: The Philip Roth of the science fiction world 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

And some writers helpfully suggested better novels and works of nonfiction about migrants and the border crisis. Perspective | Threats against the author of ‘American Dirt’ threaten us all 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

This kind of movie — dominant just now in American nonfiction filmmaking — performs the journalistic work of advocacy, investigating problems and engaging the sympathy or the outrage of viewers. Movie Review | 'Ghost Town': Zhao Dayong Fleshes Out Life in Remote China 2010-03-15T04:40:00Z

The same year, Mr. Simon asked Mr. Mills for help in writing an episode of “Homicide,” which was being adapted from Mr. Simon’s nonfiction book about the Baltimore police department’s homicide unit. David Mills, Television Writer and Producer, Dies at 48 2010-04-01T03:10:00Z

He has published a number of nonfiction books about animals, history and natural disasters. The creators of Batman and Superman have an incredible story to tell 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

In 1981, in addition to receiving the Pulitzer for general nonfiction, Professor Schorske was among the first class of recipients of a MacArthur fellowship, the so-called genius award. Carl E. Schorske, 100, Dies; Pulitzer-Winning Historian Saw Vienna as Pivotal 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

He only returned to his youthful reflections in his 60s — by which time he had accumulated a plethora of journalism and other nonfiction writing — elaborating on his memories. 3 Books That Explore Catalonia’s Fight for Independence 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

I wouldn’t go so far as to say that more nonfiction writers should actually get it — though I’m definitely against excluding them as a rule. The Nobel Prize in Literature Takes This Year Off. Our Critics Don’t. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

Yet “Seven Killings” doesn’t wither in the shadow of the Nobelwinner’s nonfiction; rather, the younger author updates his elder’s unblinking compassion. ‘A Brief History of Seven Killings’ cuts a swath across Jamaican history

Even the tone of very stylish nonfiction can influence me, so when I’m writing and want a break, I turn to fiction. Susan Orlean: By the Book 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

Slocum’s book is a nonfiction account of the author’s solo circumnavigation of the world in a thirty-six-foot sloop named the Spray—the first time this feat was achieved. Frank Bascombe’s Seafaring Foil 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

"Mozart in the Jungle," whose first season is available starting Tuesday, , is loosely inspired by oboist Blair Tindall's 2005 nonfiction book that depicted sex, drugs and other forms of debauchery in the classical-music profession. 'Mozart in the Jungle' plays it close to home in the classical world 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

Interestingly, the 2008 letter from Random House that is reprinted in the book refers to “The Telling Room” as a novel, not as nonfiction. Books of The Times: Michael Paterniti’s ‘Telling Room,’ Set in Rural Spain 2013-07-22T20:29:40Z

It was a resounding return to the dance between her fiction and her nonfiction, powered by the injustice that fueled all her words. Arundhati Roy — beloved for her fiction, derided for her politics — won’t be silenced 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

Cole has said in interviews that he will turn his attention back to Lagos for his next book, a nonfiction account of the city. Open City by Teju Cole ? review 2011-08-06T23:05:38Z

It is the 1948 nonfiction account of a woman obsessed with antique buttons. Samantha Hunt: By the Book 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

Little wonder that in Britain this extraordinary book has already won both the Wolfson History Prize and the Duff Cooper nonfiction prize. This librarian loves ancient manuscripts and wants you to love them, too 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z

What Mr. Gibson is not known for is his nonfiction writing. Books of The Times: William Gibson?s ?Distrust That Particular Flavor? - Review 2012-01-01T20:27:07Z

While there have been countless academic histories of the trials, “The Witches” is the first major commercial nonfiction book on the subject in decades. Stacy Schiff’s ‘The Witches’ Shines a Torch on Salem Trials 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

Five finalists in four categories – young people’s literature, poetry, nonfiction and fiction – will be announced on Oct. Fiction Long List Announced for National Book Awards 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

If you are yourself a nonfiction author, your initial response to this book might be to decide immediately on another line of work; Biss is that intimidatingly talented. The best in criticism: National Book Critics Circle Award finalists 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

That’s the larger lesson of a nonfiction narrative like this one: It continues, beyond a book’s pages. The Lesson Here Is Listen to the Victim 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

Fall is an excellent time for serious nonfiction. 8 New Nonfiction Books We Recommend This Week 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

In nonfiction, Richard S. Dunn received the award for “A Tale of Two Plantations,” a deeply researched account of life on plantations in Jamaica and Virginia. Marlon James Among Anisfield-Wolf Award Winners 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

Balakian, 65, has published seven collections of poetry, but readers are more likely to know his nonfiction, particularly his writing on the Armenian genocide, such as “The Burning Tigris,” published in 2004. What you need to know about Peter Balakian, the new Pulitzer Prize-winning poet 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

You’ll find all of those below, along with Paul Collier’s nonfiction book about retaining a sense of community in a globalized world. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

Richard Chizmar’s “The Long Way Home” offers nearly 500 pages of consistently readable horror and suspense, with an occasional piece of nonfiction for variety. Analysis | Just in time for Halloween, the best horror fiction of the year 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

When I want to know what’s happening in the world of international terrorism, the frighteningly prescient writing of Daniel Silva is often a better source than the news and nonfiction. Bill Bratton Doesn’t Root for the Bad Guys 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

Ms. Fellini found inspiration in sources such as the nonfiction book “Mary Ann Cotton: Britain’s First Female Serial Killer,” but she doesn’t dabble in psychology. Review: ‘The Execution of Mrs. Cotton’ Is More Erratic Than Rollicking 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

His nonfiction book “Bit by Bit: How Video Games Transformed Our World” will be published next year. Alan Moore’s sprawling new epic, ‘Jerusalem’ 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Q: You're known for serious nonfiction like "Praying for Sheetrock," based on reporting and research. 'No Biking in the House Without a Helmet': To a family with 4 children, add 5 more 2011-06-01T21:46:02Z

Cancer was also at the center of a nonfiction bestseller Young edited: Rollin’s “First, You Cry,” the NBC television correspondent’s memoir about being treated for breast cancer. Longtime publishing editor Genevieve Young dead at 89 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

Four of the five best-selling books last year on Amazon were works of nonfiction, and the fiction title, “Mill River Recluse,” was a Kindle download. Video Games: Video Game Retail Sales Decline Despite New Hits 2012-10-03T12:34:03Z

Journalist Cullen's detailed nonfiction account of the 1999 mass shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado, published in 2009, shows how much the news reports immediately following the shooting got wrong. 9 books to help us understand mass shootings 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

This film, adapted from the nonfiction book “The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game,” by Michael Lewis, is likely to pull at heartstrings. What’s on TV This Week: Michelle Obama and ‘Billions’ 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z

There may be more well-intentioned bad nonfiction movies than any other kind, films that satisfy the moral aspirations of their makers, but not much else. Film: Documentaries (in Name Only) of Every Stripe 2010-10-13T18:08:00Z

The first was “The Emperor of All Maladies,” a biography of cancer that won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. Siddhartha Mukherjee Weaves History and Biology to Tell the Story of Us 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

But possibly nothing, for me, topped an incredible nonfiction novel written by Catherine Leahy Scott, Inspector General of New York State, along with a staff of twenty-nine investigators. The Books We Loved in 2016 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

"The Seven Good Years" is Keret's first book of nonfiction, after five collections of surreal and wonderful short stories. Etgar Keret's memoir opens an odd, alluring window into life in Israel 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

A nonfiction story about the Statue of Liberty’s right foot — yes, her foot — tells kids ages 6 to 9 a bigger story about America. Fantastic books for the teens, toddlers and kids in between on your list 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

The Offing will publish fiction, poetry and nonfiction. The Offing, a new online literary magazine, launches in Los Angeles 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

“There is no one like him. He belongs in the canon of American nonfiction prose,” his biographer Daniel Oppenheimer wrote in “Far From Respectable: Dave Hickey and His Art,” published last June. Art critic Dave Hickey, known for book ‘Air Guitar’, dies 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z

People who write nonfiction, all of us think we have a novel in us. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Imagining the Unimaginable in a Nuclear-War Novel 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z

You know the index as a handy list of subjects and proper names, typically at the end of a nonfiction book, guiding you to find the information you seek. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

Capote called his work a nonfiction novel — informed by reporting but drawing on the techniques of fiction for its dramatic power. Tom Hanks on 'Pacific' HBO Series, World War II, History 2010-03-04T23:55:00Z

“Essays One” is the first collection of nonfiction by the celebrated fiction writer and translator Lydia Davis, with pieces dating to the 1970s, mainly concerning writing and writers. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

Just after the movers departed, I tidily separated the fiction from the nonfiction, dutifully arranging the fiction alphabetically by author. Perspective | Why bother organizing your books? A messy personal library is proof of life. 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z

I understood the concept of nonfiction, but I didn’t understand how a discussion of psychics and premonitions—phenomena I was pretty sure I didn’t believe in—fit into it. I Know What I Read That Summer 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

Nayeri, the author of two novels including “Refuge,” uses her first work of nonfiction to remind readers of the pain and horrors refugees face before and long after their settlement. She Fled the Iranian Revolution, but Her Troubles Didn’t End There 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

The book within the book is nonfiction, but given the dangers of the South at the time, names are changed and identities obscured. A Maid Sees Herself In a Novel, and Objects 2011-02-17T23:18:41Z

On Wednesday, at 7 p.m., the nonfiction author Danielle Allen will read from her latest book, “Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality.” Spare Times for Aug. 15-21 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

"There's definitely a blurred line between fiction and nonfiction." ABC's 'Nashville' stars sing, and it's not just for show 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

Mary Gaitskill’s first book of nonfiction — a cool and formidable collection of essays, reviews and other matter — takes its title from a sentence in Anton Chekhov’s short story “Gooseberries.” Mary Gaitskill Looks Unhappiness Straight in the Eye 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z

Levinston, the nonfiction book editor of The Washington Post, put several years into researching this fascinating book. ‘Little Demon in the City of Light’: a hypnotic murder 2014-03-26T19:48:46Z

He was reluctant to publish it because he worried it would confuse fans of his nonfiction. Erik Larson Has a Scary Story He’d Like You to Hear 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

“Essay” may be overused as a sort of catch-all term for any sort of short nonfiction, but it’s also, inherently, a form that is elastic and open and beautifully absorbent to the culture around it. Have personal essays gotten too personal? 2013-03-17T17:00:00Z

In nonfiction, a wide array of subjects: threats to democracy, ancient crafts, strategy during the Vietnam War, Ezra Pound in confinement and the Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee’s literary criticism. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

Prologue Projects, his podcast production company, was working on the fifth season of “Fiasco,” a narrative nonfiction show about American scandals in living memory. Surrounded by Big Tech, Small Podcast Shops Swim With Sharks 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

It’s mostly nonfiction, because that’s what will be on the tests. Testing is killing learning 2013-04-18T15:40:00Z

Our reviewer, Carvell Wallace, praised the “hearty inspiration” provided by this riveting nonfiction account of the Native American students who developed most of what we consider modern football. Notable Children’s Books of 2017 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

A biography of a book, rather than a person, is a relatively new wrinkle in nonfiction. ‘Les Misérables’ is not just a great story — it’s a great publishing story 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

The newest streaming behemoth, Discovery+, debuts Monday with a library of more than 55,000 episodes of nonfiction TV as well as new nature series with hosts as disparate as David Attenborough and David Schwimmer. Winter TV Preview: 21 Shows to Watch 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

The list for nonfiction and four other competitive categories — poetry, translation, young people’s literature and fiction, to be announced Friday — will be narrowed to five on Oct. Books on border wall, Tribe Called Quest on awards longlist 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

“Since 1975, self-help books — nonfiction books that offer advice for behavior modification and make explicit promises for positive change — have doubled as a percentage of all book titles,” Dr. Whelan said. Whatever Happened to Just Being Type A? 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z

Daniel Hernandez is a Styles West reporter and the author of “Down and Delirious in Mexico City,” a nonfiction exploration of youth subcultures in Mexico. The Nightlife Outlaws of East Los Angeles 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z

Usually, I do nonfiction as a way to research something that will later turn into fiction. Gary Shteyngart on How Hedge Funders See the World 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, a steady stream of less immediately newsworthy nonfiction films arrives by way of public television to add to our sum of shared experience. 'The Homestretch' on PBS: Homeless teens struggle for independence 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

Published in 1968, “Coming of Age in Mississippi” was Ms. Moody’s only work of nonfiction, and one of just two books she published during her lifetime. Anne Moody, Author of ‘Coming of Age in Mississippi,’ Dies at 74 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

Smith is the author of five novels and, most recently, the nonfiction book “Naked at Lunch.” So many books to help you get rid of stuff (like too many books) 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

The result of intensive, immersive observation over the course of four years in a Mumbai shantytown, this masterpiece of narrative nonfiction reads like a great 19th-century novel, bursting at the seams with memorable characters. 2012′s best — so far! 2012-07-04T14:00:00Z

In addition to roundups of the season’s cookbooks, travel books, gardening books and more, the issue includes the 100 Notable Books of 2013 — fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of the Book Review. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: The 100 Notable Books of 2013 2013-12-06T18:54:55Z

"In Cold Blood" was a signature work, often hailed as the beginning of a new form of storytelling: reportage written with the flair of fiction, later dubbed "creative nonfiction" or "new journalism." Judge frees original 'In Cold Blood' files for publication 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

No one carries a placard scrawled with “The end is near” in the nonfiction movie “Surviving Progress,” as people sometimes do in New Yorker cartoons. | 'Surviving Progress': ?Surviving Progress,? Based on Ronald Wright Book 2012-04-05T23:07:51Z

Founded in 2013 to rival the prestigious Booker Prize, the Folio is open to fiction, nonfiction and poetry published in Britain. Ben Lerner, Zadie Smith on list for Rathbones Folio Prize 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

Let me propose a simple definition for nonfiction: Any piece of prose that isn’t fiction. (Re-)defining nonfiction, again 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

One of the aspiring entrepreneurs managed to get the bidding up to $4 million, a sum that Mr. Burnett said was probably “the biggest amount ever available in a nonfiction TV show.” Enough Wallowing, Reality TV Is Ready for Entrepreneurship 2011-03-28T01:29:28Z

Included are surplus library items and material donated by the public, ranging from holiday books, CDs, DVDs and gift books, to a general section of fiction and nonfiction plus quality children's books. A good read or good gifts at library holiday sale 2011-11-16T23:08:09Z

Where do you get most of your ideas from for your nonfiction? Leslie Jamison and Roxane Gay: “Men are crowned as the gold standard of the genre. It’s gonna change” 2014-04-24T23:00:00Z

There’s no reason for nonfiction to be any less entertaining than going to a fiction film. Laura Poitras on Heroic Acts, Not Heroes 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

The Chilean documentary “The Eternal Memory” took the world cinema nonfiction prize. ‘A Thousand and One’ and Nikki Giovanni Documentary Win at Sundance Film Festival 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z

In the late 1970s, after almost two decades of laboring to write a second novel that might live up to her first, Harper Lee turned to nonfiction. Review | Harper Lee tried to turn a murder trial into a true crime masterpiece. What happened to the book? 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z

Norman Mailer and Truman Capote wrote nonfiction masterpieces about them. Arts & Leisure Preview: Violence That Art Didn?t See Coming 2010-02-24T19:11:00Z

Not just old favourites – new stuff, fiction and nonfiction from all around the world. The case for fortysomething festival goers 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z

The stories are explicitly or implicitly set in the U.S. but they feel universal in a way nonfiction never truly can, because it does not need to be mired in the particular or the accurate. Roxane Gay's new book 'Difficult Women' proves her power 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Young people's literature was announced Monday, and the longlists for nonfiction and fiction will be revealed over the next two days. Rita Dove on National Book Award longlist for poetry 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

The movie’s Oscar nomination for best international feature, Kotevska said, is proof that fiction and nonfiction work should not be judged separately. How ‘Honeyland’ Became an Oscar Game Changer 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

Yet the winner in general nonfiction — the category was then called contemporary affairs — was “All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw,” an oral history of an illiterate black Alabama sharecropper. Critic’s Notebook: ‘All God’s Dangers,’ a Forgotten Autobiography 2014-04-18T21:44:48Z

While the truth-is-stranger-than fiction aspects of Wright’s thriller plot may not work as well in April 2020 as they might have at a more innocent time, his skill as a nonfiction writer shines through. Review | The fiction writers saw it coming: The plot of ‘The End of October’ feels all too real 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

But really, all reading is escapist in one way or another, even if it’s nonfiction. Leigh Bardugo on bringing her Grisha YA trilogy to a close 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

Curated nonfiction is popular now for the way it seems to fit with collectivist politics; while reading it I always reach a point at which I wish I were reading the books being extensively quoted. In Capitalism’s Clutch, and Exploring Its Contradictions 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

It’s among the best nonfiction books of this still newish century. ‘Nine Pints’ Is a Brisk Biography of Blood 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

Prizes are awarded in 11 categories covering crime fiction, nonfiction and television. Bollingen Prize in American Poetry and Nominees for the National Book Critics Circle and Edgar Allan Poe Awards Are Announced 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

Laurie Stone is the author of three books of fiction and nonfiction. Review: ‘Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart’ 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

“The Life of Images” has many things you’d expect from a poet’s nonfiction miscellany. Review: Charles Simic Displays a Poet’s Voice and His Passions 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

The winners in young people’s literature, translated literature, poetry, nonfiction and fiction will be announced Nov. 17 in an online ceremony. Finalists Announced for This Year’s National Book Awards 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

Sales of children’s nonfiction were especially strong, rising by nearly 70 percent that week, a spike that resulted from millions of children being home schooled. They Were Meant to Be the Season’s Big Books. Then the Virus Struck. 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

When we talk about filmmakers taking artistic risks, he added, what they're risking is money from the nonprofit groups, broadcast outlets and foundations that traditionally fund nonfiction work. In the Golden Age of documentaries, the medium could use more artistry 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Who are your favorite writers – novelists, nonfiction, journalists, poets – working today? James Rollins: By the Book 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

It publishes short works of nonfiction called “ScrollOriginals” that sound suspiciously like Kindle Singles. Elisabeth Egan’s ‘A Window Opens’ Has Echoes of Her Amazon Odyssey 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

Almost exclusively, we looked at prizes given to non-genre writers in fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry. Most writers get screwed: We did the math, and it’s true — literary prizes exclude writers outside the campus gates 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

Which fiction and nonfiction writers — playwrights, critics, journalists, poets — inspired you most early in your career? Daniel Mendelsohn: By the Book 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin was the nonfiction winner for her book on the progressive era of the early 20th century, “The Bully Pulpit.” Tartt, Goodwin awarded Carnegie medals 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z

It’s difficult to tell if Asim — now an assistant professor of nonfiction writing at Ithaca College — sees this as a point of shame or of pride. Review | In ‘Boyz n the Void,’ a ‘malcontent with an allergy to authority’ finds freedom — and confusion — in the punk rock scene 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

His nonfiction book “The Devil’s Highway” was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Library of Congress National Book Festival: Fiction Stage schedule 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

The archive includes two partial typescripts for his 1932 nonfiction work about bullfighting, “Death in the Afternoon.” What Hemingway Left in Sloppy Joe’s Bar 80 Years Ago 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

Like her nonfiction, it’s a pretzel twist of form and meaning. ‘Crudo’ Is a Novel With a Real-Life Novelist in Thin Disguise 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

She also teaches seminars in canine cognition, audio storytelling and creative nonfiction. Bringing Home Some ‘Hairy Joie de Vivre,’ and Taking Notes 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z

He has published seven works of fiction and nonfiction, as well as writing and co-directing the independent feature “The Congressman.” Rep. Steve Israel, finding the funny in Washington’s corridors of power 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

Jen, as the critic who focuses exclusively on nonfiction for The Times, did you see any particular trends of note? Times Critics Discuss the Year in Books, From Triumphs to Disappointments 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

The nonfiction segments mix information and interviews with observation to illustrate the uphill battle faced by many Cambodian children, particularly those without parents. Movie Review: Cambodian Orphans Star in ‘Still I Strive’ 2014-05-09T01:04:31Z

Slightly more than half of the winning adapted screenplays in Oscar’s history have been based on novels; the remainder are, in descending order, from plays, nonfiction works, short stories and teleplays. A brief history of screenwriting and the Oscars 2014-02-26T22:03:43Z

“Origin” is Raff’s first book, and it lands on the hardcover nonfiction list at No. 8. The Best-Seller List Is a Smorgasbord 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

One possibility was I'll tell her story as a nonfiction writer, which it turned out I couldn't do. How an adopted girl's tragic death became fiction: David Guterson on "bearing witness" 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

It wants not only to explain the financial crisis of 2008 — following the outline of Michael Lewis’s best-selling nonfiction book — but also to make the dry, complex abstractions of high finance exciting and fun. Review: In ‘The Big Short,’ Economic Collapse for Fun and Profit 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

The Whiting Foundation chooses 10 emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama, and gives them $50,000 each. Spare Times Listings for March 6-12 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

The impact of Pennebaker and his collaborators was nothing less than seismic, creating a nonfiction film language that became as ubiquitous and universally accepted as the dry, educational rhetoric it replaced. Perspective | D.A. Pennebaker revolutionized film while living in a New York that revolutionized culture 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Entitled “A Warning,” it reached the top of the nonfiction bestseller list last November. The New York Times called ‘Anonymous’ op-ed author Miles Taylor a Trump ‘senior official.’ Was that accurate? 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

Grabby nonfiction for those passionate about everything from eating to Jane Austen. Motherlode Blog: Books to Give Your Mother (and Yourself) 2013-05-09T14:04:29Z

Like many other literary organizations, the National Book Critics Circle confers prizes for fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Finalists for the NBCC Criticism prize 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

Mr. Eire’s memoir about his boyhood in Cuba and eventual exile won the National Book Award for nonfiction in 2003. Cuba: A Reading List 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

He is the author of eight nonfiction books. 'The Oath': Jeffrey Toobin on clashing agendas on Supreme Court 2012-10-04T19:59:04Z

Best nonfiction film went to Werner Herzog’s documentary “Cave of Forgotten Dreams,” which was not even on the Academy’s shortlist – a pity, because Mr. Herzog would surely be a memorable presence on the campaign circuit. Carpetbagger Blog: New York Film Critics Circle Go With 'The Artist' 2011-11-29T22:40:12Z

With a nonfiction book, you might at least learn something. Books of The Times: What to Expect: X-Ray Vision, Doubled Life Spans and Lots of Robots 2011-03-15T20:57:36Z

Those are 500-book collections of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and other writing that will be sent to 1,000 prisons across the country. Mellon Foundation to Fund Diversity Programs at Library of Congress 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

The collection includes thriller, satire, nonfiction, history and romance titles designed to be read from start to finish during routes that last from one and a half to close to 24 hours. In Transit Blog: Runway Best Sellers 2013-06-19T17:00:16Z

The deal, announced Thursday, includes three novels, a short story collection and a book of personal essays, her first-ever nonfiction release. Author Laura Lippman has 5-book deal, not all of them novels 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z

Many of this book’s nonfiction pieces focus on childhood memories of the park. Books of The Times: ‘Central Park: An Anthology,’ Edited by Andrew Blauner 2012-07-05T12:00:00Z

“But since his passing, I’ve realized that the writing most readers go back to for glimpses of his genius are nonfiction.” A Provocative Satirist Left a Pervasive Legacy, Influencing African Writing 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z

November 22 Michael Savage to Write Two Thrillers A move from nonfiction to fiction. ArtsBeat: Site Unseen: Comic-Con Ticket-Seekers Thwarted by Online Fiasco 2010-11-22T19:43:00Z

Robie H. Harris, best known for “It’s Perfectly Normal,” a nonfiction work about puberty and sex, was warned that by offering explicit factual information to kids she would ruin her career. Thirteen Ways of Looking at Censorship 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

Fiction and nonfiction share two essential elements—imagination and emotion—and that’s where the use of reënactments in documentaries betrays the filmmaker. “The Jinx” and the Blight of Documentary Reënactments 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

Is Mr. Fujiwara’s piece a work of creative nonfiction, or fiction plain and simple? Art in Review: Simon Fujiwara: ‘Studio Pietà (King Kong Komplex)’ 2013-08-08T20:29:46Z

Incredibly brave and ahead of her time, she was a survivor herself, and left us a significant oeuvre of fiction and nonfiction. Read Your Way Through Istanbul 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

Now fans have a chance to see Demi Moore somewhere new: on the cover of “Inside Out,” her memoir, which debuts at No. 1 on the nonfiction list. Demi Moore Shares a Peek Behind the Scenes of Her No. 1 Best Seller 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

That volume is deservedly regarded as one of the prize nonfiction specimens of this century. The Osage Indians Struck It Rich, Then Paid the Price 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

The transcript is also a nonfiction writer’s dream, and Rachel Slade, the author of “Into the Raging Sea,” has made good use of it. A Disaster at Sea, Animated by 26 Hours of Black-Box Recordings 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

The world, he says, “provides nonfiction, and humans provide the rest.” What Makes an Essay American 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

In the documentary category, writer/director Charles Ferguson took the prize for best writing of a nonfiction film for "Inside Job." Writers Guild honors "Social Network," "Inception" 2011-02-06T03:59:19Z

Fiction and other nonfiction are … let’s say somewhat less organized. Bob Woodward: By the Book 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

Comic, then tragic, it is likely to be among the year’s most entertaining nonfiction films. Summer 2018 Movie Release Schedule 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

“This exciting acquisition adds a new program of extraordinary diversity, vibrancy, and strength to HBG’s portfolio of publishers. It fits our strategic goals of growth and nonfiction expansion.” Hachette Book Group buys Perseus 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

She’s written a nonfiction manuscript at last — a autobiographical book, refracted through her relationships — but has set it aside for the time being. She Never Existed. Catherine Lacey Wrote Her Biography Anyway. 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z

The book won the National Book Critics Circle 2005 award for nonfiction. 7 reasons why the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature is a Belarusian you don't know 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

And what power does a nicely turned work of literary nonfiction have against “the whumping of helicopters warming up in Beverly Hills, the sound of William Morris paratroopers zipping up their jumpsuits”? Bad news sells in the 'The Last Kid Left' 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

In fiction, a medal was awarded to Colson Whitehead’s “The Underground Railroad,” and in nonfiction, Matthew Desmond's “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City” was honored. American Library Assn.'s 2017 award winners include 'March: Book Three' by Rep. John Lewis 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

My first moment of wanting to be a nonfiction writer was stumbling across an essay by Loren Eiseley called “The Bird and the Machine.” The Essay That Made Jo Ann Beard Want to Write Nonfiction 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

There are writers of nonfiction who would never use composite characters … There are absolutely a handful. I like my imagined literary nemesis 2013-06-01T22:30:00Z

“There’s been so much written about Anne over the years: fiction and nonfiction, and plays, and movies, and so many editions of her diary,” she says. A Provocative New Novel Reimagines the Anne Frank Story 2013-08-30T22:06:01Z

Writers have been blending fiction and nonfiction since the beginnings of literature. ‘ZeroZeroZero,’ by Roberto Saviano 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

I know that my form of nonfiction is controversial and there are some journalists who simply don’t like what I do. I like my imagined literary nemesis 2013-06-01T22:30:00Z

The general nonfiction prize was given to "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern," Stephen Greenblatt's telling of the 15th century rediscovery of the Latin poet Lucretius. The late Manning Marable wins history Pulitzer 2012-04-16T19:25:10Z

SAT-SUN Fiction and nonfiction books for all ages, CDs, DVDs, records, audiobooks, collectible books, most priced $1-$3, half price Sunday; bring bag or pack for purchases; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

He still utilizes the pen name but has moved on to nonfiction. Review | ‘Dracula’ brought vampires into the limelight. Let’s talk about the best literary blood suckers since. 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

“Learning in our family was entirely self-directed,” she writes in her memoir, “Educated,” which enters the hardcover nonfiction list at No. 3. Spinning a Brutal Off-the-Grid Childhood into a Gripping Memoir 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

“I wanted to write a nonfiction horror movie, where you’re feeling the dread as if you’re the one being torn apart by people like us,” Mr. Ronson said in a phone interview. When the Cyberbully Is You 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

With its voluminous examples, it was a de facto guide to nonfiction literature, which Mr. Zinsser noted could be least as sophisticated and well written as poetry or novels. William Zinsser, author of the classic guide ‘On Writing Well,’ dies at 92 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

No, the game isn’t an autobiography or a documentary, or even nonfiction. Video Game Review: Papo & Yo 2012-09-25T12:45:11Z

These names and the frontier town are familiar territory for Guinn, who has written nonfiction about Arizona, most notably “The Last Gunfight,” a well-researched airing of what led up to the gunfight near Tombstone’s O.K. ‘Glorious:’ love and trouble in the Arizona Territory 2014-04-30T19:31:19Z

“Graphic novel” sounds more highbrow, but it’s not always correct, given that many of these books now are memoirs and other kinds of nonfiction. Perspective | Don’t be afraid to let children read graphic novels. They’re real books. 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

The couple met in 2015 while taking classes together at Columbia, from which she received an M.F.A. in creative nonfiction writing. Elettra Pauletto, Kenneth Rosen 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z

Since then, Chang has expanded his empire to include multiple eateries, a podcast, two Netflix shows — and now a memoir, “Eat a Peach,” which rolled onto this week’s hardcover nonfiction list at No. 15. David Chang’s Memoir, ‘Eat a Peach,’ Provides Food for Thought 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

Fifteen books were recognized as winners or finalists for the Pulitzer Prize on Monday, in the categories of fiction, general history, biography, poetry and general nonfiction. Pulitzer Prizes: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

In his first published piece of nonfiction, McCarthy offers an unusual take on language and the unconscious mind. Weekly Culture Review: “The Handmaid’s Tale,” the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and More 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z

The result is his fascinating new book, Imagine: How Creativity Works, which will be No. 1 on the New York Times nonfiction list on Sunday. How We All Can Be ?Creative Types? 2012-04-05T15:13:09Z

“The Korean War” has its share of awkward sentences, and Mr. Cumings makes at least one mistake of his own, referring to Michael Herr’s 1970 nonfiction book “Dispatches,” about the Vietnam War, as a novel. Books of The Times: Bruce Cumings?s ?Korean War,? Corrective on Conflict 2010-07-21T21:41:00Z

The author of well over 100 volumes of fiction and nonfiction, Mr. Wilson became a sensation at 24, when “The Outsider” was published and instantly touched a deep nerve in postwar Britain. Colin Wilson, Author of ‘The Outsider,’ Dies at 82 2013-12-12T17:03:34Z

Zoellner, the politics editor of The Los Angeles Review of Books and the author of several previous works of nonfiction — including “Train: Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World” — is an old-fashioned American vagabond. Crisscrossing the Country on Highways Big and Small 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z

Even though his novels have fallen out of critical favor and general popularity, Lawrence’s nonfiction and criticism remain forceful, immediate and striking. Review | We blog, we tweet, we post to Facebook: Let’s instead savor the art of the essay 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

A master of historical nonfiction applies his methods to his grandfather, a mobster in Johnstown, Pa., illuminating the Mafia’s network in small-town America and, affectingly, the dysfunction in his family’s past. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

Writing fellowships were awarded in fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Guggenheim fellows for 2015 are announced 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

When is a documentary a true nonfiction film? 'Invincible Force': Losing one's self while trying to get fit 2012-03-22T20:04:09Z

Readers who require their nonfiction to have some of the richness and push of a novel may begin to skim. Books of The Times: Sticky Fingers, Used in Service of a Covetous Nature 2011-06-28T21:45:44Z

Greene’s analytical critique of dramatization reflects the more commonplace reliance on a nonfiction record as a touchstone for drama—a reliance that risks tripping up true-story Hollywood films on the road to awards. Two Important Documentaries from Sundance 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

Which comes more naturally to you—writing fiction or writing nonfiction? This Week in Fiction: Etgar Keret on the Purest Form of Racism 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

His turn toward nonfiction and autobiography nearly 40 years into his career has surprised many longtime readers — and even Robinson himself. A Sci-Fi Writer Returns to Earth: ‘The Real Story Is the One Facing Us’ 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z

In the exceedingly small niche of series that lovingly parody well-known nonfiction films, “Documentary Now!” reigns supreme. Winter TV Preview: ‘True Detective,’ ‘Carmen Sandiego’ and 19 More Shows to Watch 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

This week, the foundation will reveal its longlists for all five competitive categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, young people’s literature and translation. Award longlists announced for translation, children’s books 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

But I had written a 20-page proposal with an outline of chapters for a nonfiction book that explores a fast-emerging new field of genetic science. A Writing Retreat by Rail, From Paris to the Côte d’Azur 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

It spent three weeks on The New York Times nonfiction best-seller list. We’re Going to Need More Gabrielle Union 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

Consider Walter Isaacson’s latest opus, “The Code Breaker,” which is now No. 2 in its second week on the hardcover nonfiction list. Walter Isaacson’s New Book Celebrates Three Notable Women 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

“In my opinion, the quality of the prose is just as important in nonfiction as in fiction.” Robert Caro’s Papers Headed to New-York Historical Society 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

The awards, determined by a jury of critics and book review editors, honor excellence in six categories – autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction and poetry. National Book Critics Circle Announces Award Nominees 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

“Unbroken” is a tour-de-force, setting standard for narrative nonfiction that this book never meets. 'The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica' doesn't quite deliver on the glitter of its premise 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

Your last book, “I.O.U.,” was a nonfiction look into the complicated world of finance. ArtsBeat: Q. & A.: John Lanchester on 'Capital' 2012-06-13T16:28:11Z

Previously announced were the longlists for nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature. The National Book Awards longlist for fiction: 8 women and 2 men 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

The prize for general nonfiction was Andrew Solomon's best-seller about how families handle everything from hearing loss to mental illness to crime, "Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity." Caro wins National Book Critics Circle bio prize 2013-02-28T23:35:11Z

Is it possible that the Nobel committee might finally reverse the ignoble treatment of what we call “nonfiction writing” and admit that it is literature? Nonfiction Deserves a Nobel 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Anne Finger is a writer of fiction and nonfiction who, like many others in her field, can’t rely on income from her creative work alone. For Artists in Need, a New Coalition Brings $11.6 Million in Speedy Relief 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

We are seeing the commodification and commercialization of nonfiction, and what that means for storytelling is problematic, and what that means for independent voices is problematic. In the PBS doc "Storm Lake," a tiny Iowa paper fights for the future of high-quality local news 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

Fiction writers usually need more time than poets or nonfiction writers to absorb historical events, and novels and short stories about the coronavirus remain rare a year into the pandemic. Atwood, Grisham among contributors to pandemic novel 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z

As an unfocused, unremarkable young college student, he read Tom Wolfe’s “The Right Stuff,” a nonfiction classic on why anyone in his right mind would submit to the dangers of spaceflight. A Memoir of a Year on the International Space Station 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

Mr. Raad went with surrealism and turned photographs and videos into the visual equivalent of creative nonfiction, fantasy reality, truth that isn’t true. Walid Raad’s Unreality Show Spins Middle Eastern History as Art 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

Times bestseller in nonfiction is “Leonardo da Vinci” by Walter Isaacson, another masterful tale of genius from the author of “Steve Jobs,” “Benjamin Franklin” and “Einstein.” Books: The National Book Award winners, Alexander Chee on his mentor Kit Reed and more 2017-11-18T05:00:00Z

Even when the focus is an activist’s struggle — a staple of nonfiction film — the driving impulse is the emotion at the core of the story. At AFI Docs, bold characters and controversial stories take the spotlight

“The lingua franca of nonfiction filmmaking should be the language of cinema and not the language of grant applications,” she said. In the Golden Age of documentaries, the medium could use more artistry 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

In their blurring of familiar distinctions between documentary and imagination, between fiction and nonfiction, they become, in the highest sense, political films. Two Important Documentaries from Sundance 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

Another thing gave her pause about naming names in a nonfiction rendering: “There was going to be sex.” How a fed-up group of ‘Good Girls’ beat the ‘Mad Men’-era sexists 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

So I tried it as nonfiction, a pop-culture documentary, switching the focus somewhat and looking at events from a more journalistic angle. Is journalism killing my creativity? 2013-04-01T00:00:00Z

We know she helped Truman Capote with “In Cold Blood,” his 1966 “nonfiction novel,” but after that, there isn’t much. Harper Lee: What's wrong with a one-hit wonder? 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

His most recent book, “Our Migrant Souls,” is nonfiction and personal, touching on his parents’ migration from Guatemala and his upbringing in Los Angeles. Read Your Way Around Los Angeles 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

The conceit of the vacuous nonfiction movie “Casting JonBenet” is simple. Review: ‘Casting JonBenet’ Revisits a 1996 Murder 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

Plus, my nonfiction books are all based on literature. Neil Strauss on rock stars, Charlie Sheen and the art of a good interview 2011-03-18T18:19:00Z

“White Too Long” is part of a dynamic and growing field of contemporary nonfiction that calls the white church to task for its failings when it comes to racism. Is the White Church Inherently Racist? 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

Founded in 2013 to rival the prestigious Booker Prize, the Folio is open to fiction, nonfiction and poetry from anywhere in the world published in Britain. Damon Galgut, Colm Toibin among Folio Prize finalists 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

Far too rarely does contemporary fiction and nonfiction provide the needed escape, regularly being gloomy, earnest and replete with finger-pointing and breast-beating. Review | Cheer yourself up with light comedies from another era 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

But animation really is the ideal form for this nonfiction account of one refugee’s flight from Afghanistan in the early 1990s. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

The longlist for young people’s literature was announced Monday; nonfiction will be announced on Thursday and fiction on Friday. The 10 poets on the longlist for the 2017 National Book Award 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

It’s an artisanal hagiography, a frank and admiring piece of fan nonfiction. Review: ‘Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’ 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

In “Buddy,” his first nonfiction book, he is able to wring maximum comic effect from the Terrible Pet genre and also to tell a heartwarming family tale without trying too noticeably to warm the heart. Books of The Times: Brian McGrory’s ‘Buddy: How a Rooster Made Me a Family Man’ 2012-11-28T21:00:37Z

This swiveling, a currently fashionable device in nonfiction, is more cumbersome than expressive. Books of The Times: ?Forgotten Land? by Max Egremont - Review 2011-12-28T22:10:01Z

“Oh, I thought it was a nonfiction book,” the waitress interrupted with a perplexed and awkward look on her face. Pet Projects of the New Billionaires 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z

With its wryly absurdist, self-absorbed but self-deprecating humor, the film is like a Southern Protestant, nonfiction version of a Woody Allen comedy. Watch List: Selections for Marathon Couch Time 2013-08-12T21:53:25Z

“Now there are so many opportunities” at Apple, Audible, Netflix, the New York Times and others creating audio-news and nonfiction programming divisions. NPR is losing some of its Black and Latino hosts. Colleagues see a larger crisis. 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

He’s exploring a type of book that’s completely new to him: nonfiction. Gene Luen Yang named Ambassador for Young People’s Literature 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

Literary agents and editors should be preparing a whole new slate of political memoirs and nonfiction books for a reading public eager for something different. Tired of Trump books? A new wave of politicians could bring a fresh crop of titles. 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

The bookshelves in our family room house older fiction, nonfiction, most of our art books. Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney Read Hemingway at Marcia Brady’s Urging 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

He recognizes that the gap between its fiction and today’s nonfiction is pretty wide. ‘It’s the president we all want’: The melancholy world of liberals watching ‘The West Wing’ in 2018 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

In the immediate aftermath of the killing, “we were all looking at the death,” said Vinnie Malhotra, the executive vice president of nonfiction programming at Showtime. Two New Movies Share a Clear Message: Don’t Forget Jamal Khashoggi 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z

Based in Los Angeles, PEN Center USA annually honors poetry, nonfiction, fiction, screenwriting and journalism by writers from the West, while also celebrating the work of creative writers who foster free speech. Claudia Rankine and Meghan Daum lead 2015 PEN Literary Awards 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

"I had never seen this before, this land of comics and prose, covering nonfiction, covering war," Axe said. Joseph Kony graphic novel illustrates personal stories of violent campaign 2013-03-15T17:57:21Z

Of course, we’ve heard these stories before, in superb fiction and nonfiction by other soldiers. Review | Nico Walker is a convicted bank robber. ‘Cherry’ proves he’s also a must-read author. 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

House is the author of six novels, most recently 2018's "Southernmost," as well as a book of creative nonfiction, "Something's Rising," co-authored with Jason Howard. "You have to think about hope": Author Silas House on democracy's demise, climate refugees and dogs 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z

“The Good Nurse,” which is adapted from Charles Graeber’s nonfiction book, is also a movie that would not exist without another American system — namely, Hollywood. With ‘The Good Nurse,’ a Director Takes on a Serial Killer and a System 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Herzog wrote 16 novels, two collections of short stories and nine nonfiction books. Arthur Herzog III, Author of ?The Swarm,? Dies at 83 2010-06-09T04:53:00Z

Unlike Joyce’s innovations, Hemingway’s experimental fusion of fiction and nonfiction remained largely at the level of theory—but it has proven to be even more enduringly influential. Hemingway as the Godfather of Long-form 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

Novels and poetry fall into two groups, but all the nonfiction is organized by topic. Jane Fonda Likes to Curl Up With a Good Book, Among the Dead 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

Seven awards also recognize fiction, drama, history, biographies, poetry, general nonfiction and music. Winners of Pulitzer Prizes for U.S. journalism to be announced 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

Gathered under the umbrella of creative nonfiction, memoir can utilize some of the tools of narrative while avoiding the huge canvas of autobiography. The anticipation around Prince Harry's "Spare," from its ghostwriter to the memoir genre 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z

It can reflect not just fact but emotion, in a way that is really unmatched by any other kind of nonfiction storytelling. 20 must-see documentaries to explain the world in 2020 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z

His nonfiction prose, gathered here for the first time, demonstrates that the swashbuckling Bolaño could declaim and brawl at the same time. Books of The Times: Freewheeling Essays, to Be Consumed With a Cocktail 2011-06-07T14:01:39Z

In this electronic era publishers are increasingly reaching into their backlists to exploit popular nonfiction from the past. Releasing Old Nonfiction Books When Facts Have Changed 2013-01-30T21:12:24Z

That initially seems true of his 2005 movie, “Our Daily Bread,” a nonfiction look at industrial food production. Movie Review: ‘Abendland,’ a Documentary by Nikolaus Geyrhalter 2012-07-26T22:43:14Z

But the book became a tremendous success, signaling a new approach to the writing of nonfiction: deeply personal, deeply empathetic, disconcertingly self-revelatory. Emmanuel Carrère’s Disconcertingly Personal and Utterly Gripping Prose 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

Do you save that for — and I’m going to put quotes around this — your “real” writing, your nonfiction writing? Ta-Nehisi Coates on Creating Black Superheroes 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

Among the first responders were writers offering dystopian fiction and apocalyptic nonfiction, all questioning the durability of democracy under stress. Why Intellectuals Support Dictators 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z

Here, in no fixed order, are 14 nonfiction books and 10 novels published in 2022 that stood out as favorites of Salon writers and editors. Salon's favorite books of 2022 — fiction and nonfiction 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

Reviewers from The Washington Post share their thoughts on the best of this year’s kids’ fiction, nonfiction and picture books. Best 2014 books for kids: Fiction, nonfiction and picture books 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

But, of course, there is no answer, otherwise why write poetry rather than nonfiction. Traversing the sexy area between words and their meanings with Li-Young Lee in the poetry collection 'The Undressing' 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

For every George Orwell, equally adept at nonfiction and the novel, there's William Gass, whose fiction falls as silent to me as his essays sing. Mohsin Hamid's new book takes a post-9/11 view 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

Their library consists of fiction and nonfiction books, cookbooks and teen novels. Is deep reading becoming a thing of the past? 2011-01-10T16:46:04Z

The winner in the general nonfiction category was "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History" by Elizabeth Kolbert, published by Henry Holt. Anthony Doerr and Elizabeth Kolbert win 2015 Pulitzer Prizes 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

I've picked up a bunch of newer and classic novels and nonfiction reads for just a couple bucks. How to read more books in 2018 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z

They brought me the closest of any books, including nonfiction histories, to understanding Germany during the Hitler years. John Sandford: By the Book 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

He noted that the documentary section of the festival has grown dramatically, estimating that the number of nonfiction films submitted has tripled in the past decade. Locally made documentaries showcased at Seattle International Film Festival 2010-05-12T23:40:00Z

The prize is given to films that "illuminate the possible on both sides of the fiction/nonfiction divide." 'Heavens Knows What' star knows all about the street life film depicts 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

It was more than a year ago, when things were merely bad, that the British critic Olivia Laing wrote the foreword to “Funny Weather,” her new collection of nonfiction pieces. Review | Olivia Laing’s ‘Funny Weather’ ponders the role of art during times of crisis 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

Even Garbus’s recent scripted debut, Netflix’s “Lost Girls,” was marked by a disquieting restlessness — the movie was based on Robert Kolker’s nonfiction book about the unsolved killings of Long Island sex workers. Liz Garbus Is Taking Back the Voices Stolen by the Golden State Killer 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

Waldman’s second nonfiction book promises equal controversy but a mellower release. How Ayelet Waldman Found a Calmer Life on Tiny Doses of LSD 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

In less than two months, it sold more than 101,000 copies, according to Nielsen, and hit the No. 1 spot on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction best-seller list. ‘Hamilton’ Inc.: The Path to a Billion-Dollar Show 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

“This book is on a trajectory to be the best-selling nonfiction book of the year.” Hillary book sales top 100,000 in first week 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

Box office sensation "Toy Story 3" was named best animated movie, and a nonfiction film about education issues, "Waiting for Superman" claimed the trophy for best documentary. Broadcast critics click on "Social Network" 2011-01-15T05:58:25Z

Katha Pollitt’s latest work of nonfiction is a refreshing and comprehensive look at abortion rights, in which she lays out systematic arguments for a woman’s right to choose. Katha Pollitt: America is a “fiesta of licentiousness,” but we’re still conflicted about sex 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

His corporeal and erudite nonfiction debut begins with a letter to his grandmother. Review | In ‘A History of My Brief Body,’ Billy-Ray Belcourt triumphs over oppression through lyric essays 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

On the New York Times nonfiction extended best-seller list of June 10, “Wild” was at the No. 22 spot. Media Decoder Blog: The Return of Oprah's Book Club 2012-06-01T22:03:03Z

Last year, TLC introduced "Sister Wives," which was essentially a nonfiction version of "Big Love." "Sister Wives" in legal spotlight for Season 2 2011-03-10T23:59:10Z

He’s an important nonfiction writer who may become an important novelist, but he isn’t one yet. Times Critics Discuss Their Year in Books, From New Talents to Old Favorites 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

That was Stewart's fifth work of nonfiction; since 2001 she's been hitting bestseller lists with her quirky tales of the natural world with books that include "Wicked Plants" and "Flower Confidential." What made Amy Stewart leave garden bestsellers behind for the novel 'Girl Waits with Gun'? 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

“Ruthless Sun” amounts to a sequel of sorts to King’s “Devil in the Grove,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 2013. How a Racist Sheriff Railroaded a Disabled Teenager and Got Off 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

In a recent interview, Mr. Powers, DOC NYC’s artistic director, compared it in size and scope to other major stops on the nonfiction festival circuit, like the I.D.F.A. in Amsterdam and Hot Docs in Toronto. The DOC NYC Film Festival Returns 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

Left unexplained, the possible links between these women’s stories and those of other people would, as in a novel or a traditional piece of reported nonfiction, be self-evident. Sex in the Mirror 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z

"Inside Job" is a nonfiction counterpart, chronicling the long prelude of greed and excess before the economy went bust. Cannes Film Festival makes do with lighter lineup 2010-05-11T12:56:00Z

Dr. See was the author of 10 books, encompassing fiction and nonfiction, and was co-author of several more. Carolyn See, memoirist, novelist and book reviewer for The Post, dies at 82 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

The actor is producing a nonfiction show, "Boston's Finest," that premieres next month on TNT. Wahlberg: I'm not making a Boston 'COPS' 2013-01-04T21:19:08Z

As the author of a work of nonfiction, Mr. Wilson was neither a dramatist like Mr. Osborne nor a novelist like Mr. Amis. Colin Wilson, Author of ‘The Outsider,’ Dies at 82 2013-12-12T17:03:34Z

“It haunts a lot of us who are refugees from Vietnam, what our lives could’ve been, and so I think that sense saturates my fiction and my nonfiction.” He Writes Unreliable Narrators Because He Is One, Too 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z

Gordimer was born in South Africa in 1923 and was an active opponent of its apartheid regime in her fiction, nonfiction and human rights advocacy. Nadine Gordimer, critic of apartheid and Nobel laureate, has died 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

Walter Lord's "A Night to Remember," first published in 1955, will be No. 1 this Sunday on The New York Times' chart of combined print and e-book nonfiction sales. Titanic anniversary boosts sales for classic book 2012-04-24T16:46:05Z

In this nonfiction work, Nguyen looks closely at the war, and at how it was perceived by the various sides involved. Reader’s Guide to This Fall’s Big Book Awards 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

So when I’m dealing with questions in the Ethicist, what I’m trying to do is view the situations almost as nonfiction thought problems. Chuck Klosterman’s shocking secret! Being the Ethicist doesn’t make me ethical 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

Sam Quinones, a former Times reporter, won the nonfiction award for "Dreamland: The True Story of America's Opiate Epidemic," which looks at Oxycontin and heroin addiction in America. Paul Beatty, Maggie Nelson, Sam Quinones among winners of 2015 Book Critics awards 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Vargas Llosa has also had a prolific career as a journalist and public intellectual; “Sabers and Utopias” is his 25th volume of nonfiction. In Politics if Not Art, Realism Trumps Magic for Mario Vargas Llosa 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

It was also my first attempt at writing nonfiction for this book, and it just wasn't very well written. Cathy Park Hong: "Sometimes you just have to push back – being offended is part of the process" 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

The objective may be more about political conversation than conversion, but the wish to engage the “other” in a Trump world raises questions about why nonfiction cinema speaks largely to the like-minded and liberal. Left-Leaning Documentary World Seeks Right-Wing Perspective 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

Writing nonfiction is a little easier for me, but writing fiction feels much more natural. This Week in Fiction: Etgar Keret on the Purest Form of Racism 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

Books about Trump may be the most popular, and populous, nonfiction genre since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorism attacks inspired a publishing boom. The media scramble at the heart of Trump Book Summer 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

She also wrote a collection of stories and short nonfiction pieces, “Sweetly Sings the Donkey,” which was published when she was 24 and received as a kind of autobiography. Shelagh Delaney, Playwright, Dies at 72 2011-11-25T02:20:01Z

Fiction, nonfiction, history, essays, criticism, dirty jokes, Picasso’s “Guernica” — it’s all storytelling, and anything with ideas and momentum is a story. Where do art and the humanities belong? David Kipen on the new American Writers Museum 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

“So many professions want to claim him — historians and nonfiction writers and the rest, but I think of him as quintessentially a journalist,” she says. Robert Caro shares tips about his craft in ‘Working’ 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

“Becoming” doesn’t appear on Greek nonfiction lists at all. Michelle Obama’s Book Is No. 1 Here — and No. 1 in Finland, Singapore and Portugal 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

Baldwin, at least in his nonfiction, was anything but sentimental. A grand theory of anti-blackness: The unflinching and profound terror in Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between The World and Me” 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

I had ended up writing nonfiction instead of fiction because of the realities of modern publishing. Karl Taro Greenfeld on His New Book, Urban Origin Myths and Whether Dads Can “Have It All” 2012-08-01T17:59:13Z

It won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1962, and the companion film garnered four Emmys. Critic?s Notebook: How We Picked Our Presidents, 1960s Style 2011-07-05T00:23:31Z

The film stems from reporter Rajiv Chandrasekaran's 2006 nonfiction book "Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone," a behind-the-scenes account of the Bush administration appointees who ran Iraq after the invasion. New Matt Damon movie may bring Iraq war into mainstream 2010-03-11T19:53:00Z

Her previous book, a nonfiction work called “Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions,” arose from her interviews with migrant children as a volunteer court interpreter in New York City. Valeria Luiselli Traces the Youngest Casualties of the Border Crisis 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

Behind all his multifariousness, Wells remained an educator and proselytizer at heart, using his fiction and nonfiction as talking points for, as Tomalin’s subtitle says, “changing the world.” Review | H.G. Wells wanted to change the world. A new book explores the author’s outsize ambitions 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

His nonfiction is as compelling as his fiction, comics and screenplays. Neil Gaiman on making art, mistakes and his 'View from the Cheap Seats' 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

Starting next spring, the award will be presented to a book, fiction or nonfiction, published in a given calendar year that is about New York City or takes place there. New literary prize is $50,000 honor for best New York story 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

The section on Brazil, for instance, would offer not just guidebooks but Brazilian fiction, nonfiction and history. Can Britain’s Top Bookseller Save Barnes & Noble? 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

The film critics, in their 45th annual awards, named "Inside Job," the documentary about the 2008 financial crisis, as the year's best nonfiction film, while "True Grit" took the prize for cinematography. "Social Network" sweeps national film critics' awards 2011-01-08T22:27:55Z

Readers who limit themselves to nonfiction are missing great works of imagination that nourish the soul. Letters to the Editor 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

Several of the finalists for the prize in general nonfiction reflect the tenor of the times. Finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Awards 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

Our national appetite for stories about deception does not seem to have abated, and there’s a glut of nonfiction audio journalism to satisfy that craving. 7 Podcasts About the Art of the Scam 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

I didn't intend to write it as nonfiction. "The Third Rainbow Girl" author on the true story of a double murder she didn't set out to write 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z

I tend to read nonfiction when I’m writing, usually research. Kate Atkinson: By the Book 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

“We didn’t always care how much of it was nonfiction or fiction. Ehsaan lived — and narrated — his life along the blurry Line of Control between the two genres.” An Immigrant Weaves His Love Stories Between Fact and Fiction 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

Moore was among the very last American nonfiction filmmakers with access to the megaplex and our undivided attention. 2004: ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ and a Country at War With Itself 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

“It’s like the code of nonfiction: if it’s out there we have to try everything to get it.” Their Thai Cave Rescue Film Was Done. Then 87 Hours of Footage Arrived. 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

The National Book Critics Circle presents awards in six categories — fiction, nonfiction, poetry, biography, autobiography and criticism. Louise Erdrich and Matthew Desmond win National Book Critics Circle Awards 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

A Seattle-based author's collection of creative nonfiction chronicling her diagnosis with inflammatory breast cancer and her dreams of and fight for survival. Local books: breast-cancer survival 2011-10-31T19:57:04Z

Ms. Wiseman, who also wrote “Queen Bees & Wannabes,” a nonfiction book about the social pecking order of tween girls, speaks with students around the country. 2010-01-30T04:45:00Z

Nothing is in alphabetical order, fiction is mixed in with nonfiction, hardbacks with paperbacks, and there are obvious gaps where books have been removed and not put back. Why Ed Miliband's bookcase speaks volumes 2011-03-18T21:46:21Z

After a 30-year career as a journalist, mostly as a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune in D.C., the younger Maclean took to writing well-received nonfiction about wildfires in the American West. The backstory for ‘A River Runs Through It’ has arrived, 45 years later 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z

You would be forgiven for assuming that long stretches of it consist of vérité documentary, but this cryptic, experimental film, shot on 16 millimeter, unfolds in a never-quite-identifiable mode that blends nonfiction and performative elements. ‘El Gran Movimiento’ Review: Subsistence and the City 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z

He became obsessed with books as a child, devouring everything from Tolkien to nonfiction about World War I, and realized he wanted to become a writer by the time he was 13. With a Violent Debut, He Reveals a London That Is Rarely Seen 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z

Netflix, which has upended viewing habits of scripted series television, is actively pursuing the nonfiction market as well. 'The Jinx' proves that documentaries can draw big audiences 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

“She used to say that the book you’re supposed to write finds you,” not the other way around, said her daughter, who is also a writer, of fiction and nonfiction. Penelope Niven, Carl Sandburg Biographer, Dies at 75 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

The other four National Book Awards longlists — nonfiction, poetry, translated literature and young people’s literature — all include debut authors as well. Booker Prize Is Rescheduled to Make Way for Obama’s Memoir 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

Mr. Demme told the London Guardian that he felt refreshed by documentary work and that when he made “Rachel Getting Married,” he shot it as if it were a nonfiction work. Jonathan Demme, who directed ‘Silence of the Lambs,’ ‘Philadelphia,’ dies at 73 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

Best nonfiction film went to the financial system documentary "Inside Job." New York Film Critics pick `Social Network' 2010-12-13T22:31:05Z

Below are the finalists in fiction, nonfiction, young people’s literature and poetry. Jesmyn Ward and Masha Gessen Among 2017 National Book Awards Finalists 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

“Think, Write, Speak,” a new collection of Vladimir Nabokov’s nonfiction, arrived this year. Moments in Reading That Salvaged an Often Sour Year 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

So this movie will be based on the popular TV series that was a reimagining of the 2004 film of the same name, which was already adapted from Buzz Bissinger's nonfiction book. Five pop culture items we missed 2011-08-02T23:01:00Z

Some were called fiction, others nonfiction, but virtually all drew directly from her life — with only the names changed. Hollywood bard, muse and reveler Eve Babitz dies at 78 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z

Hemingway’s 1935 book “Green Hills of Africa,” which has just been republished by Scribner in a new and augmented edition, is a work of nonfiction. Hemingway as the Godfather of Long-form 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

In the past you’ve taken flack for stretching aspects of nonfiction. I like my imagined literary nemesis 2013-06-01T22:30:00Z

This is Michael Paterniti’s second nonfiction book, 13 years after “Driving Mr. Albert” recounted his quality time with a Tupperware container that held part of Albert Einstein’s brain. Books of The Times: Michael Paterniti’s ‘Telling Room,’ Set in Rural Spain 2013-07-22T20:29:40Z

British bookstores tend to stock a richer inventory of history books, rather than the watered-down social studies and photographic collage that often passes for nonfiction here. A Mother-Daughter Test: London, Together 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Stroup, 35, is pursuing a master of fine arts in creative nonfiction writing at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., where he is an instructor in composition and creative writing. Erica Sackin, David Stroup 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z

Ms. Macy, whose reporting led to “Factory Man,” a stunning account of what globalization had done to an Appalachian furniture factory and its owners and workers, has once again mined the area for nonfiction. The Top Books of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

Also, I am established as a fiction writer — if my first book had been nonfiction, I don’t know if I could have moved out so easily. How Covid Got Gish Jen Thinking About China 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z

The National Book Foundation, which presents the awards, announced the nonfiction picks Wednesday. Nonfiction Long-List Announced for Book Awards 2013-09-18T13:55:03Z

The book reached No. 3 on The New York Times’s nonfiction best-seller list. Michael Drosnin, Who Found Clues in the Bible, Is Dead at 74 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z

His nonfiction books are similarly zesty and distinctive. Nicholson Baker's 'The Way the World Works': on Wikipedia and weddings 2012-08-01T19:59:04Z

In that respect, Tyrnauer is a product of his times rather than a pernicious outlier who’s lowering the bar for the nonfiction community. "Where’s My Roy Cohn?" review: A stale portrait of Donald Trump’s hero — Sundance 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

Still, even a dry-seeming nonfiction category like “books about books” — a librarian might label them “studies of print culture”— can be dangerously fascinating. Perspective | When I find fiction too draining, I turn to books about books. They can be as thrilling as a whodunit. 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

Another nonfiction book tells the story of an American woman who worked in the resistance while living in Germany and was sentenced to death by Hitler. 13 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

That piece, “I Was a Cable Guy. I Saw the Worst of America,” led to her essay collection, “Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing,” which recently spent two weeks on the paperback nonfiction list. Want to Become a Writer? Lauren Hough Recommends Bartending. 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

Others proposed playing down fiction, since men seemed to bring in more nonfiction books. One Way to Encourage Checking-Out at the Library 2011-03-02T22:32:49Z

It currently sits at No. 8 on the New York Times nonfiction best-seller list. Megyn Kelly, the Glittering Aberration 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Grossman, one of Israel’s pre-eminent novelists and thinkers, has written fiction, nonfiction and children’s literature; his work has been widely translated, garnering him numerous international awards, including the 2017 Man Booker International Prize. David Grossman’s New Novel Is a Multigenerational Saga of Love and Loss 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

The odd thing about my career is that it took me a while to realize that I looked upon nonfiction as storytelling. Feminist icon Vivian Gornick, still in the fight: A conversation with Jonathan Lethem 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Tom Wolfe's "Back to Blood" came out this fall and he has more fiction and nonfiction planned. Roth retires but Wolfe, Wouk among authors past 80 2012-11-20T12:59:09Z

Kotlowitz, his co-producer and collaborator, is a journalist and author known for his nonfiction works about poverty and race, including the books "There Are No Children Here" and "The Other Side of the River." Pick of the week: Real-life crime drama "The Interrupters" 2011-07-29T01:01:00Z

David Brion Davis won the nonfiction prize for "The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation," the final book in a trilogy about the history of slavery in the Western world. 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award winners announced 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

They took on classic stories like “Heidi” and “Rip van Winkle,” along with nonfiction about rayon and wool that is now obscure, and Queen Marie of Romania’s fairy tale starring a magic doll. Antiques: Newark Museum to Exhibit Hercules Mosaic Panel 2012-10-04T20:53:59Z

The last time nonfiction films played quite so strong a role in the nominations was 2006, when “Capote,” “Munich,” and “Good Night, and Good Luck,” all drawn from life, were nominated. Carpetbagger: ?King?s Speech? Leads Oscar Nominations 2011-01-25T17:17:25Z

ABC opened its nonfiction summer series "NY Med" this week on a lighter note, following an emergency room patient who suffers a painful side effect to a drug designed to boost male sexual performance. 'NY Med': Laughter, tears, Dr. Oz and more in TV documentary 2012-07-13T19:27:05Z

Judging committees chose five books in each of four competitive categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people's literature. Whitehead, Rep. John Lewis are National Book Award finalists 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Winfrey's book will be followed up by several nonfiction titles selected by the talk show host, Oscar-nominated actress, Broadway producer and cable network owner. Oprah's memoir is delayed, but her cookbook is coming in January 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z

He also wrote hundreds of articles, poetry, historical fiction and such nonfiction works as the memoir “Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood,” which came out earlier this year. Gary Paulsen, celebrated children’s author, dies at 82 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

Eggers, who works in multiple genres from nonfiction to screenplay, turns his gaze towards the Trump administration through this new satirical novel. Dave Eggers on Trump and the perception of truth in unscripted lies 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

Lacey once harbored the idea of being a journalist — she received an M.F.A. in creative nonfiction at Columbia — though over her career has found herself turning to fiction when she gets stuck. She Never Existed. Catherine Lacey Wrote Her Biography Anyway. 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z

Forget false distinctions between nonfiction films and narrative “movie movies.” The best movies of 2014: ‘Boyhood,’ ‘Force Majeure,’ ‘Selma’ and more

By swapping the typical nonfiction formula for an anecdotal and abstract slice-of-life portrait, “Toni Stone” takes some big swings — and connects more often than not. Review | ‘Toni Stone’ takes some big swings in Arena Stage’s winning return to live theater 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

Now, UTA is expanding its ambitions even further by buying the literary agency Fletcher & Company, dramatically increasing its roster of contemporary novelists and nonfiction writers. United Talent Agency Grows Its Literary Business 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

And while that completist approach to nonfiction will appeal to D-Day buffs, it is in contrast to Stephen Ambrose’s “Band of Brothers,” which oftentimes skipped over details but kept tension high. ‘Dog Company’ details vital, valiant D-Day battle 2013-01-02T22:43:52Z

You may want to check out another newcomer on the nonfiction list: “Stolen Focus,” by Johann Hari, which debuts at No. 5. The Best-Seller List Is a Smorgasbord 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, reference - it is a well-stocked library gleaned from prison resources and donations, said Clark Newsom, the Department of Corrections spokesman. SC prison holds writing program for prison inmates 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

First there is a book she is writing, described by her as a nonfiction “entrepreneur story,” to be published next year by Penguin Press. Tamara Mellon’s Next Step 2012-10-28T17:57:18Z

Twenty years on, flash nonfiction, epitomized by the 84 essays Brevity’s editors chose for this collection, endures largely because those who write it quickly mastered the craft. Essay Collections on Home, Culture and Everything in Between 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

Wiseman's film is my favorite nonfiction work of the year alongside another film you probably missed: "Last Train Home," Chinese-Canadian director Lixin Fan's first feature, a documentary with the sweep of an epic. Michael Phillips picks the year's 10 best movies 2010-12-15T22:06:00Z

So many of its essays appeared in small journals that I began to fear Gaitskill had never seen a check with a comma in it — for her nonfiction. Mary Gaitskill Looks Unhappiness Straight in the Eye 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z

I wanted to preserve that sense of overlap because it helps the world feel more real, whether it’s in “Deadwood” or a book of narrative nonfiction. All the Presidents Penned 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z

‘Duck Dynasty’ Season Opens to Record Ratings The backwoods reality show “Duck Dynasty” drew 11.8 million viewers Wednesday night on A&E, the largest audience ever for a nonfiction telecast on cable television. ‘Duck Dynasty’ Season Opens to Record Ratings 2013-08-15T21:08:32Z

In nonfiction, too, I’m drawn to books that play with convention. Please Don’t Ask Elizabeth Kolbert How She Organizes Her Books 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

Her comment cuts to the heart of this unusual little movie, an amalgam of fiction and nonfiction that deftly lays bare the prismatic possibilities of truth when filtered through the camera’s eye. Review: ‘A Woman Like Me,’ About Grappling With Terminal Illness 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

In this week’s nonfiction, we recommend a biography of Norma McCorvey — a.k.a. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

This is his first novel, but the graduate of Eastern Washington University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop has widely published fiction and nonfiction. 'Lonesome Animals': Crimes, punishment in 1930s Eastern Wash. 2012-05-24T20:21:04Z

After a year in Wasteland, Mr. Meyer was ready to move on, and he now divides his time between Singapore and Pittsburgh, where he teaches nonfiction writing. Review: Michael Meyer’s ‘In Manchuria’ Documents a Changing Rural China 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z

I'm curious about how you, especially coming from a fiction background into nonfiction, how you thought through the ethics of writing about students in nonfiction like this. "The Third Rainbow Girl" author on the true story of a double murder she didn't set out to write 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z

He had first pitched Bowie directly on making a hybrid nonfiction film in 2007, when the artist was already wondering how to showcase his archives, but the timing and scope wasn’t right, Morgen said. A Filmmaker Explores David Bowie’s Life and Finds Clarity About His Own 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

Amazon, for instance, created its Kindle Singles program in 2011 for publishing short fiction and nonfiction brief enough to be read in less than two hours. Digital age brings revival of the short story 2013-02-16T18:02:06Z

His new film is “The Lost City of Z,” which is based on the nonfiction book by David Grann, a New Yorker staff writer, chronicling an early-twentieth-century British explorer’s ill-fated expedition in the Amazon jungle. “The Lost City of Z” Resuscitates Cinema’s Classic Adventure Tale 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

Fridays list concludes a week during which the National Book Foundation, which presents the awards, announced nominees for translation, poetry, young people’s literature and nonfiction. ‘The Vanishing Half’ nominated for National Book Award 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z

It undermines the piety and ethical lapses in nonfiction mystery shows, while sharing with “Three Billboards” a belief in semaphores and that people aren’t any one thing. Does ‘Three Billboards’ Say Anything About America? Well … 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

Except for its scenes involving animals, this handsome, excessively fastidious screen adaptation of Diane Ackerman’s 2007 nonfiction best seller is a polite but pallid recycling of Holocaust movie tropes with epic pretensions. Review: In ‘The Zookeeper’s Wife,’ the Holocaust Seems Tame 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

Times bestseller in nonfiction this week is “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” by Michael Wolff. Books: Susan Straight and David L. Ulin take on innovative memoirs and more in books 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z

Neither did the San Antonio Book Festival, where Sarah Menkedick, the author, was supposed to talk about her new work of nonfiction, “Ordinary Insanity: Fear and the Silent Crisis of Motherhood in America.” For Kenny Chesney and Others, Promotion in a Pandemic Is a Quandary 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z

In January, the film won the Grand Jury and Audience prizes in the nonfiction category at Sundance. With ‘Summer of Soul,’ Questlove Wants to Fill a Cultural Void 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

Or at least I have a history of publishing some dark nonfiction material: kill, kill, kill, and murder, more killing and more murder. Why I won't stop writing about "trauma" to focus on joy 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z

And the title to “iHo” is an even more direct homage, this time to Shaw’s nonfiction book “The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism.” Kushner’s ‘The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide’ Finds a Niche at the Shaw Festival 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

And if the story is nonfiction, so much the better, as Animal Planet shows with “KILLER OUTBREAKS,” a new series starting Friday at 9 p.m. The Week Ahead: April 10 ? 16 2011-04-08T13:57:40Z

These four fascinating new nonfiction books are just hitting shelves. 4 new nonfiction books not to be missed 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

From the outset Didion’s nonfiction has shown no obligation to the whopping epiphanic. Joan Didion Revisits the Past Once More 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

She represents this bridge for me between fiction and nonfiction writing. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: The Ways We Inherit Historical Traumas 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

Through seven editions — the most recent in 2006 — Mr. Zinsser revised his book, adding chapters about changing technology, the growing diversity of nonfiction and the intellectual choices faced by writers. William Zinsser, author of the classic guide ‘On Writing Well,’ dies at 92 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

Annual fiction and nonfiction awards will be announced later this year. APNewsBreak: Author O'Brien wins Ohio Peace Prize 2012-08-01T12:28:08Z

One of his newest is "We Are America,"featuring illustrations by his artist son Christopher Myers — and nonfiction, such as "The Greatest,"a biography of Muhammad Ali. Meet the new kid-lit ambassador 2012-01-14T07:24:59Z

Academics have long quarreled about whether Daniel Defoe’s “A Journal of the Plague Year” should be considered a work of fiction or nonfiction — or a peculiar hybrid. An Eerily Prescient Pandemic Novel That’s Guaranteed to Terrify 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

He is now working on a nonfiction book about Lagos. Teju Cole’s ‘Every Day Is for the Thief’ Comes to the U.S. 2014-03-19T21:01:25Z

A nonfiction account of the silent war of Soviet-American espionage from the 1940s to the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. The 25 Best Children’s Books of 2019 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

Courtney Kincaid, the director of the library, said she moved "This Day in June" to the nonfiction section but declined to remove the books outright. LGBT children's books face possible ban in Texas public library 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

What inspired you to write your first book-length work of nonfiction? An Unusual Gangster: Doug J. Swanson Talks About Benny Binion 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

Born in Annapolis, Md., and raised in rural Carlisle, Ky., the 56-year-old writer's prolific works include novels, nonfiction, essays and poetry on a broad range of issues and topics. A conversation with author Barbara Kingsolver 2011-08-02T16:29:13Z

For her research Ms. Rogan read several nonfiction accounts of seafaring. Charlotte Rogan, Author of ?The Lifeboat? 2012-04-03T22:17:12Z

I believe readers would welcome a Times take on the remarkable nonfiction being written by women. Letters to the Editor 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

Their unsettled position between fiction and nonfiction leaves the secular reader wondering: How am I supposed to take this stuff? The Book of Mormon: the Great American Bible 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous publications, including Harper’s and The New Yorker, which selected her for their list of “20 Under 40” American fiction writers in 2010. Which Canonical Work is Frequently and Frustratingly Misread? 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

The third book in his Johnson series, “Master of the Senate,” won the 2002 National Book Award for nonfiction. Biographer Robert Caro will release his next book — on audio only — in May 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

In tracking the life of the funk music titan for this nonfiction book, Mr. McBride found a more complex story about race, music and the South. Around Town for April 1-7 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

Samantha Haywood, Ms. Harrison’s literary agent in Canada, said that Ms. Harrison spent much of her career working as an editor and writing nonfiction under the name Susan Harrison. The Novel ‘Silent Wife’ Benefits From Success of ‘Gone Girl’ 2013-08-04T21:53:54Z

So I thought I might give nonfiction a try, and I loved it from day one. An Unusual Gangster: Doug J. Swanson Talks About Benny Binion 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

A sci-fi fan since his teenage years, Mr. Robinson also made a living in nonfiction. Frank M. Robinson, speechwriter for Harvey Milk, dies at 87

IN FACT: The Dec. 31, 1967, nonfiction list was all over the place as well. When William Styron Ruled the Best-Seller List 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

Three days after the first reality TV president was sworn into office, hundreds of reality TV producers swarmed into Washington for the RealScreen Summit, an annual conference for nonfiction programmers. Trump is our first reality TV president. So how could his victory change reality TV? 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

I read literary fiction most, but also some charismatic and political nonfiction and cultural history. Lydia Millet: By the Book 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

Maybe because drama has been competing for cultural space with nonfiction and documentary for years now, and often losing. On TV, the Truth Hurts 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

Amelia has just finished “a nonfiction novel” on the crime. “True Detective,” Reviewed: Clever Chronology Tries to Conceal an Unclever Cop Show 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

I told more than one person, as I moved through my days this past week, that I was reading one of the most powerful nonfiction books I’d ever encountered. Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ Is an ‘Instant American Classic’ About Our Abiding Sin 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

“I worked on it off and on, in nonfiction form at first, but I realized I wouldn’t be able to slog through the legal documents and police records to make it a true-crime book.” A Bookstore Owner Taps a Wound to Write a First Novel 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

"West of Memphis" is nonfiction filmmaking at its best, a film with a fierce point of view yet one that doesn't pretend to have all the answers or a monopoly on truth. Review: 'West of Memphis' seizes reins of justice 2012-12-21T16:20:22Z

Because I’ve worked in bookstores, I arrange them alphabetically by author in sections: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, anthologies, travel, and so on. For Lily King, a Great Book Always Starts With the Sentences 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

Most of my classmates, however, wrote memoir, works of nonfiction that unfolded like novels, about substance abuse or spiritual journeys, world travel or doomed marriages. Alice Sebold's "Lucky" and the problem with memoirs with happy endings 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z

This is why representation is so important when it comes to nonfiction storytelling. A New Film Shines a Light on Women Conductors 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z

An earlier version of this review called this book nonfiction. Is There Still Sex in the City? Not So Much, Apparently 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

Once upon a time, and sometimes still today, good bookstores would “hand-sell” favorite works of fiction and nonfiction. Michael Dirda selects three magical books 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

Jessica Alexander, editor at The New Humanitarian in Geneva, is the author of the nonfiction book “Chasing Chaos.” ‘I Would Give Anything to Hold Their Hands Again’ 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

What is it about fiction that intoxicates you in ways that nonfiction can’t? Cynthia Ozick, with her new collection 'Critics, Monsters, Fanatics,' on her writing life 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

The winners in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young adult literature will be announced at a ceremony on Nov. 17. ArtsBeat: National Book Awards Nominees Announced 2010-10-13T16:20:00Z

This sounds an awful lot like some of Robinson’s own nonfiction. Marilynne Robinson’s Essays Reflect an Eccentric, Exasperating, Profound and Generous Mind 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

At the center of the book is "Breathtaken," one of Wright's nonfiction projects, a chronicle of violence and murder in New Orleans. In 'Shallcross,' C.D. Wright was at the height of her powers 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Contenders also include Selima Hill’s poetry collection “Men Who Feed Pigeons” and “Albert and the Whale,” Philip Hoare’s nonfiction book about the artist Albrecht Dürer. Damon Galgut, Colm Toibin among Folio Prize finalists 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

A recent example is “After the Tall Timber,” a collection of Renata Adler’s nonfiction published in April, two years after it revived two of her novels, “Speedboat” and “Pitch Dark.” New York Review of Books Fills a Niche by Reviving Forgotten Works 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

Shunning conventional reportage, the “nonfiction memoir,” as it was sometimes called, illuminated the mundane and the terrifying, as well as how service members — and fellow journalists — endured their years in a hell zone. Vietnam War reporter Michael Herr, who helped write ‘Apocalypse Now’ and ‘Full Metal Jacket,’ dies at 76 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

Other truths may be found in nonfiction picks, though cooking and other how-to books are left for O's other seasonal lists. Nutty novels, thrillers on O Magazine reading list 2011-06-13T17:22:24Z

The best in picture books, middle grade and young adult fiction and nonfiction, selected by the children’s books editor of The New York Times Book Review from books reviewed in these pages this year. Need Gifts for Readers? Check Out Our Holiday Book Suggestions 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

Capote was already a celebrated writer — of the novella "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and the spectacular nonfiction crime book "In Cold Blood." Joanne Carson's Capote-edited memoir chapter still in limbo 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

The journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, the photographer Sally Mann and the poet Tracy K. Smith were among the 10 writers nominated for the National Book Award’s nonfiction prize. Coates and Mann Are Among National Book Award Nonfiction Nominees 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

It’s number 4 this week on the Publishers Weekly hardbound nonfiction list. Kristin Hannah’s inspirations for WWII tale ‘The Nightingale’ 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

So it’s an odd relief to read nonfiction light-years better than my own. New & Noteworthy, From Isabel Allende to Robert Walser 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

This was and is a visionary nonfiction epic written by an artist in the Russian Orthodox, old-regime tradition of Gogol, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. Martin Amis on Lenin’s Deadly Revolution 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

So I think that Sebastian Junger is a phenomenal journalist who sometimes also writes narrative nonfiction similar to what I do. I like my imagined literary nemesis 2013-06-01T22:30:00Z

After the conflict, France long denied the human rights abuses committed in its name and censored numerous works of fiction and nonfiction that exposed facts to the contrary. He Planted a Bomb That Never Went Off. He Was Executed Anyway. 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

The grants are the first round in the NEH's Public Scholar program, which seeks to bring academic nonfiction to a wider audience. Academic nonfiction for the masses? NEH awards $1.7 million in Public Scholar grants 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

The awards honor the best mystery writing in several categories, including fiction, nonfiction and television. ArtsBeat: Edgar Awards Handed Out for Top Mystery Works 2014-05-02T17:35:21Z

How much of a challenge was it to structure a novel after years of writing short-form nonfiction? This Week in Fiction: Elif Batuman on Writing Fiction vs. Nonfiction 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

The nonfiction nominees were announced in November and include two films shortlisted for the Oscar, “Life According to Sam” and “Which Way Is the Front Line From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington.” The Carpetbagger: Producers Pick Their Top 10 2014-01-02T18:59:15Z

At Lifetime, Gateley will oversee content creation for the network and its affiliated brands including movies, scripted series and nonfiction teams. Lifetime taps MTV alum Liz Gateley as head of programming 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

Already, the nonfiction accounts are on their way, with their chronicles of the virus’s spread across the globe and the missed opportunities to contain it. Perspective | What will post-pandemic fiction look like? The novels that followed 9/11 offer some clues. 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z

One potential nonfiction series, "One Born Every Minute," follows women in an Ohio maternity ward. Other networks aimed at women waiting for OWN 2010-12-20T14:04:17Z

So left a small, promising body of work behind: this book and a second, to be published next year, which will include portions of an unfinished novel and some nonfiction writing. Witty and Soulful Stories From a Writer Who Was Just Getting Started 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z

In 1950, she profiled Ernest Hemingway, who planted the seeds of creative nonfiction in such books as “Death in the Afternoon” and “Green Hills of Africa.” Lillian Ross’s Brilliant Chronicle of the Power Struggle Behind a John Huston Film 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

That’s the film adaptation of the nonfiction book of the same title. ‘She Said’ Review: A Quiet Thriller That Speaks Volumes 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z

That is Messud’s mission, too, in the nonfiction collected here no less than in such accomplished novels as “The Woman Upstairs” and “The Burning Girl.” Review | Claire Messud has an antidote to our current polarized isolation 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

Wyatt Mason teaches nonfiction in the Bennington Writing Seminars and is a contributing editor at Harper's. Magazine Preview: The HBO Auteur: David Simon 2010-03-17T14:56:00Z

Writer and activist whose work focuses on education inequality, recipient of the National Book Award for the nonfiction “Death at an Early Age” Education experts share the best books they’ve read about teaching 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

As my senior year approached, Kent encouraged me to find a graduate program in nonfiction writing, and I did, in Pittsburgh. What novelist Kent Haruf taught me about writing and life 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

“The rule of most writing — the shorter, the better — appears not to apply to Klay’s nonfiction,” James Fallows writes in his review. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

If you’d like a status update on Britain’s tangled feelings about its neighbor France, you could do worse than study The Sunday Times of London’s current hardcover nonfiction best-seller list. Books of the Times: ?Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris,? by Graham Robb 2010-04-27T21:30:00Z

The English writer Olivia Laing is the author of three perceptive books of nonfiction, books in which you fill the margins with avid little ticks of approval. ‘Crudo’ Is a Novel With a Real-Life Novelist in Thin Disguise 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

Friends of the Library Book Sale: Holiday books, CDs, DVDs, gift books, children's books, fiction and nonfiction, most for $1; proceeds support Seattle Public Library, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Yulefest at the Nordic Heritage Museum and other weekend community events 2010-11-19T22:08:00Z

Yet stories, especially nonfiction murder inquiries like this one, require endings. Dwight Garner Reviews the 'Serial' Season Finale 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

And, as soon as the Nobel’s nonfiction barrier is, at last, broken, the fact that it ever existed will come to seem absurd. Nonfiction Deserves a Nobel 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

I tend to read more nonfiction than fiction these days, especially memoirs, and books that teach me something about history, the psyche or humanity in general. Edelweiss, Edelweiss? Julie Andrews Loves Reading About 18th-Century Plant Hunters 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

Boyd was a native of Atlanta who studied as an undergraduate at Northwestern University and received a master’s degree in creative nonfiction writing from Goucher College. Valerie Boyd, Zora Neale Hurston biographer, dead at 58 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z

Heti’s philosophical and essential new novel floats somewhere between fiction and nonfiction. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

The book will reach the No. 7 spot on The New York Times’s hardcover nonfiction best-seller list to be published on Nov. 28, its fourth week on the list. Mark Twain?s Autobiography Flying Off the Shelves 2010-11-19T22:37:00Z

It was “The Long Gray Line,” by former Washington Post reporter Rick Atkinson, a nonfiction account of West Point’s Class of 1966, in which Wheeler featured prominently. He helped build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. How did he end up dead in a landfill? 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

What you’re now holding is this: an antic, improbable and resonant nonfiction book, one that’s part historical horror story and part squalid crime caper. Books of The Times: A Grotesque Artifact Starts a Journey From Garage Sale to Buchenwald 2010-09-30T22:21:00Z

I think the most important thing is to read, and I do read nonfiction and memoir. Rachel Kushner meets Nicola Sturgeon: ‘I'm so glad I'm a novelist and not a politician’ 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z

The book is nonfiction: Both teenagers are housed in Texas prisons. Texas prisons ban books by Langston Hughes and Bob Dole - but 'Mein Kampf' is OK 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

Ms. Green doesn’t bother with the usual nonfiction signposts; there is no accompanying text or voice-over to serve as a guide. Review: ‘Casting JonBenet’ Revisits a 1996 Murder 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

The nonfiction finalists include books set in war and foreign locales. ArtsBeat: National Book Awards Nominees Announced 2010-10-13T16:20:00Z

The objective was always to turn it into a book — I think I saw it as something falling between a conceptual piece and a novel, referring to it as nonfiction fiction. Among Friends: Linda Rosenkrantz on 'Talk' 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z

Trump, who started out writing fiction before she published her nonfiction best seller, volunteered to write it, but felt she was out of her depth on the romance elements. Mary Trump and E. Jean Carroll Are Collaborating on a Romance Novel. No Politics Allowed. 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

For nearly 50 years Tyler has been making it up - and telling the truth - about love, family, work and death, while leaving current events for the nonfiction writers to handle. Anne Tyler, still making it up 2012-04-03T12:39:08Z

I combine many various forms: nonfiction, poetry, auto fiction, visual art, song lyrics, text messages, hypertext even. Salon’s author questionnaire: “Everyone appreciates a short book” 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

He then wrote a nonfiction account of the race, “Blue Water, Green Skipper,” and, after returning to Georgia, sold the American rights to W.W. Stuart Woods, Prolific Best-Selling Thriller Author, Dies at 84 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

The survey, which will be released Monday, was conducted anonymously online in fall 2014 and yielded 772 responses from fiction and nonfiction writers and related professionals, including translators and editors, in 50 countries. Writers Say They Feel Censored by Surveillance 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

Hillary Clinton, secretary of state during Barack Obama’s first term, has written a handful of nonfiction works. Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny co-writing mystery novel 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

By the register were shelves full of new fiction and nonfiction and a bookcase dedicated to eclectic titles published by The New York Review of Books. Summer Reading Recommendations, From 6 Novelists Who Own Bookstores 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

As Bowler grappled with her situation, first she wrote a New York Times Op-Ed that went viral and then a memoir, “Everything Happens For a Reason,” which enters the hardcover nonfiction list at No. 8. After Setting Her Hair on Fire, Lisa Gardner Decided to Become a Writer 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z

On March 12, the National Book Critics Circle will award its annual prizes in fiction, nonfiction, biography, autobiography, criticism and poetry. The best in poetry: National Book Critics Circle Award finalists 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

Mr. Lewis — arguably one of the most successful nonfiction writers working today, with book sales topping 10 million copies — is betting Audible will expand his audience and draw even more people to his work. Want Michael Lewis’s Next Book? You’ll Have to Listen to It. 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z

Lee’s nonfiction work is in particularly short supply, in fact. Streaming: curate your own Spike Lee season 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z

The book was originally acquired by the Random House nonfiction imprint Spiegel & Grau, which closed this year, and will now be released by the larger company. Prince’s Unfinished Memoir Will Be Released After All 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

SUN Friends of the Library sale of hundreds of titles, fiction, nonfiction, cookbooks, children’s books, a dollar each, all proceeds benefit children’s programs at Lake Forest Park Library, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more for July 22-28 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

The nonfiction bestseller list is traditionally peppered with controversial figures and provocative subject matter. The year’s unlikeliest bestselling author: Hitler 2014-01-09T15:54:00Z

Since I’m a nonfiction writer, and always trying to remind people that nonfiction is literature, too, I’ll talk about a classic work of nonfiction, ok? Daniel Mendelsohn: By the Book 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

Wright is best known for his nonfiction, but in spring 2020 he published a novel, “The End of October,” that was an eerily timed thriller about a pandemic. Summer Is Coming. Bring a Book. 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

He is the author of nine books of fiction and nonfiction, including the New York Times bestsellers "Candyfreak" and "Against Football." Did the “The Daily Show” make us smarter voters or not? Two satire experts face off 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z

Paramount just won a bidding war for the film, Deadline reports, which is based on a nonfiction book of the same name by Erik Larson. Leonardo DiCaprio To Star in Martin Scorsese's 'Devil in the White City' 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z

Alphabetical by author for fiction and nonfiction, and by discipline for art books. The Essay That Made Jo Ann Beard Want to Write Nonfiction 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

Like department stores, festivals like to separate their offerings into friendly consumer categories and this year, the New York Film Festival put most of its nonfiction into a separate section, Spotlight on Documentary. A Guide to Enjoying the Final Stretch of the New York Film Festival 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

Or if you mean fiction versus nonfiction more generally, I find I read less fiction than I used to. Diane Johnson Wishes More Authors Would Write About Friendship 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

What was once a radically imaginative part of Vara’s plot punctured the fine line between fiction and nonfiction and became real enough that she could watch explanatory how-to videos about the new technology. She Wrote a Dystopian Novel. Now Her Fiction Is Crossing Into Reality. 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

“In Cold Blood,” his sensational nonfiction novel about a murdered Kansas family, made him the best-known writer in America. We’re still talking about Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball 50 years later. Here’s why. 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z

Documentaries are one of Sundance’s strengths, and Mr. Cooper and Mr. Groth on Wednesday named 16 to play in a nonfiction area of competition. A Sundance Lineup Laced With Race, Horror and Family Turmoil 2013-12-04T22:27:15Z

Nine writers are honored each year — three in fiction, three in nonfiction and three in drama. For some winners, getting the $150,000 Windham-Campbell Prizes was literally unbelievable 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

I'm thinking about all my friends who work in nonfiction, and these are people who kill themselves to get it right. Mary Karr calls liars on their lies and discusses 'The Art of Memoir' 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

But in this third solo novel Mr. Barry must juggle more elaborate material than the brief, simple howlers he packs into his nonfiction essays. Books of The Times: New Comic Novels From Dave Barry and Tim Dorsey 2013-01-16T20:43:01Z

Six intriguing new nonfiction titles -- some are already climbing our bestseller list. 6 intriguing new nonfiction books 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

“There are days,” Mr. McMurtry wrote, “where I think my own nonfiction will outlive my novels.” Larry McMurtry, Novelist of the American West, Dies at 84 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

Workman was founder, president and CEO of one of the largest independent publishers of nonfiction trade books and calendars. Publishing company founder Workman dies at 74 2013-04-07T22:16:04Z

And it delivers all the spectacle of a sports feature with the intimacy and social realism of nonfiction — an even truer, grittier “Blind Side.” The Carpetbagger?s 2012 Oscar Predictions 2012-02-24T00:38:40Z

Writing nonfiction helped me figure out the world, fiction allowed me to revisit these memories, examine them as an outside observer, and to alchemize them into art, something I was proud to own. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z

Her book debuted at number one on The New York Times best-seller list for nonfiction in its first week. Arianna Huffington: Women ‘pay the price for multitasking’ 2014-05-07T22:21:43Z

Wharton, whose 40-plus books include novels such as “The Age of Innocence” as well as nonfiction, was the first female Pulitzer Prize winner. Six female writers’ homes you can tour, including the one where Alcott penned ‘Little Women’ 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

Gail Sheehy a lively participant in New York’s literary scene and a practitioner of creative nonfiction, studied anthropology with Margaret Mead. Gail Sheehy, Journalist, Author and Social Observer, Dies at 83 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

Patrick Radden Keefe’s “Say Nothing,” a history of the Troubles told largely through one woman’s disappearance, is one of this year’s most acclaimed works of nonfiction. Love and War in European Fiction 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

Anderson, a former war correspondent and author of both novels and nonfiction, weaves together four separate stories. ‘Lawrence in Arabia’: blueprint for disaster in the Middle East 2013-08-07T21:54:23Z

In other words, documentary nonfiction saved the day. Diamondbacks 1, Story 0 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z

“The Imposter,” which is being released on Friday, does not belong to that clear-eyed tradition of nonfiction filmmaking that exposes injustice to exonerate the innocent and condemn the guilty. ‘The Imposter’ and a Sense of Balance 2012-07-06T14:30:00Z

Among several works of narrative nonfiction about their plight is the journalist Sonia Nazario’s “Enrique’s Journey,” which shadows a Honduran boy as he rides the rails to reunite with his mother in the United States. Valeria Luiselli Traces the Youngest Casualties of the Border Crisis 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

Read a chapter in a fiction or nonfiction book Aim to read a book a week. 25 Habits That Will Make You Smarter 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

He quickly followed “The Sympathizer” with his story collection, “The Refugees,” and a work of nonfiction, “Nothing Ever Dies.” He Writes Unreliable Narrators Because He Is One, Too 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z

"My nature is to try and look past apparent truths, to pull back layers and understand the psychological motives behind phenomena. A nonfiction subject challenges you, it keeps you honest." Bennett Miller's 'Foxcatcher' is a true American horror story 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

Now at No. 1 on the hardcover nonfiction list, “Unthinkable” is a celebration of citizen activists, public servants, survivors, family and hard-won, against-all-odds optimism. New Best Sellers Run the Gamut From Escapist to Galvanizing 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

Michael Bennet, a Democratic senator from Colorado, spends his near-weekly flights between Washington and Denver unwinding by reading for pleasure, mostly nonfiction. Stuck in a Reading Rut? How to Create New Book Habits 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

In nonfiction, “The Dead Are Arising” marks the second time in the past decade that a Malcolm X biographer was posthumously cited by awards judges. Novelist Lydia Millet among National Book Award finalists 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

The prize for best nonfiction film went to "The Gatekeepers," director Dror Moreh's exploration of intelligence operations by Israel's Shin Bet security agency. Critics pick 'Amour' as best film of 2012 2013-01-05T22:56:08Z

That prize, worth $10,000, will "support the completion of a literary work of nonfiction that uses oral history to illuminate an event, individual, place, or movement," according to PEN. PEN America launches $75,000 book prize, one of the country's biggest 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

It's notoriously hard to predict which feature documentaries will end up as the film academy's final five nominees, but surveying the field, one thing is clear: It's been an extraordinary year for nonfiction on-screen. From Prop. 8 to Joe Paterno, six contenders for feature documentary 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

The fallout added another chapter to the slippery debate over fiction versus nonfiction. Books of The Times: Alexander Maksik’s New Novel, ‘A Marker to Measure Drift’ 2013-08-22T19:58:56Z

Oftentimes, nonfiction about comedy, especially about stand-up, lists toward the agonized and self-serious, and while “Phat” does not shy away from weighty ideas and real strife — personal and societal — it is also funny. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

Interleaving snapshots of a lost world, the primal power of nature and high science, “The Great Quake” is an outstanding work of nonfiction. How a 9.2 earthquake in Alaska in 1964 changed our understanding is explained in 'The Great Quake' 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

Granted I have made up these terms, but they point to a nonfiction phenomenon—that much is for sure. I love my dog as much as my child 2012-11-10T17:00:00Z

The Sibert Medal was established in 2001 to honor the most distinguished "informational," or nonfiction, book published each year for children from birth through age 14. Award-winning nonfiction books for young readers 2012-02-21T05:12:14Z

Chazelle was supported by Armstrong’s sons and James R Hansen, author of the nonfiction book First Man, from which the movie was adapted. 'If anyone can Maga, it is Nasa': how First Man put a rocket up the politics of space 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

Emerging readers of the crucial ages 7 to 12 can now choose graphic books from an inspiring variety of genres — humor, nonfiction, fantasy, action/adventure and drama. Getting 21st-Century Kids to Read More Books 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

Since 2015, the NEH has been funding the Public Scholar program, an annual series of grants designed to promote the publication of scholarly nonfiction books for a general audience. These books are brought to you with the help of Uncle Sam. 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

During the Q. and A. session, it emerged that quite a few people in the audience knew Franzen or his family and perhaps even made cameos in his nonfiction. 12 Authors Write About the Libraries They Love 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

Coates, author of the bestselling nonfiction books “The Beautiful Struggle,” “Between the World and Me” and “We Were Eight Years in Power,” returns to the Seattle Arts & Lectures stage with a new identity: novelist. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for October 2019 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

The National Book Award nominees for the 2014 nonfiction prize were announced on Wednesday. National Book Awards Nominees, Nonfiction 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

Is there in him a touch of Sontag’s son, the nonfiction writer and policy analyst David Rieff, whom Nunez once dated? Sigrid Nunez Follows ‘The Friend’ With a Sorrowful, Funny Novel About Death 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z

Consider that over the past several years, three of the best-selling nonfiction books were enthusiastic travelogues by people who claimed to have briefly died and visited heaven. Gene Weingarten: Mythunderstood

When Ms. Alexievich won last year, it was a rare instance of a nonfiction writer being honored by the Nobel committee for her artistic achievement. Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize in Literature 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

Is there an actual reason not to get the grocery shopping into a nonfiction narrative? Masha and Keith Gessen on Writing About Russia 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z

The book is the latest in Graywolf’s “The Art of” series about writing, joining a dozen others loosely addressing the practice of poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Edwidge Danticat writes into the unknown in 'The Art of Death' 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z

Topics: , , , , , Writers on writing, , Beowulf, , English literature, How to write Poetry, Hi Cary, I’m a nonfiction writer who has dabbled  in fiction writing over the years. How do I start writing poems? 2013-02-22T01:00:00Z

Herzog has published a handful of nonfiction books, including “Of Walking in Ice” and “Conquest of the Useless,” an account of the calamities that befell the production of “Fitzcarraldo.” Werner Herzog’s Fever Dreams 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

Right now I'm doing a miniseries for HBO based on a nonfiction book, "Factory Man," about a furniture dynasty in Virginia in a trade war with China. John Patrick Shanley gets his Irish up with 'Outside Mullingar' 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z

There’s a trend for nonfiction to make large claims of how some phenomenon or another “makes us human” — language, cooking, navigation, even animals. Grief and Geology Both Take Time in ‘The Book of Unconformities’ 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z

He is the author of 10 books of poetry and two books of nonfiction, and the editor of several anthologies. A Poetry Collection That Squints Hard at the Culture, in Pain and in Joy 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

I could tell stories in fiction that I could never tell in nonfiction anymore—maybe because I wasn’t as good a reporter, but also because I felt constrained. Karl Taro Greenfeld on His New Book, Urban Origin Myths and Whether Dads Can “Have It All” 2012-08-01T17:59:13Z

He blurs the lines between fiction and nonfiction by sometimes using a contrived storyteller’s voice in an essay, or by throwing criticism into something that sounds more like a piece of fiction. Have personal essays gotten too personal? 2013-03-17T17:00:00Z

David Brion Davis won the nonfiction award for “The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation,” the third volume of his trilogy and the culmination of nearly 50 years of research. ‘Lila’ Honored as Top Fiction by National Book Critics Circle 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Mr. David said these holograms were no different from other forms of nonfiction storytelling. Andy Kaufman and Redd Foxx to Tour, Years After Death, as Holograms 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

The detours recall the hectic narrative nonfiction of the ’90s and early aughts, by writers like Dave Eggers and David Foster Wallace. ‘Survival Math’ Opens Some Personal Wounds but Leaves Others Hidden 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

Certainly Lorrie Moore has had a huge impact on both my fiction and my nonfiction. Sloane Crosley: By the Book 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

One of the nonfiction projects on which she worked at Random House was “The Black Book,” published in 1974. Toni Morrison, Towering Novelist of the Black Experience, Dies at 88 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

That nonfiction is capacious, amorphous, that it contains a multitude of subjects and approaches. (Re-)defining nonfiction, again 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

The author of “The Grammarians” and other novels favors nonfiction when she’s writing: “I try not to read contemporary fiction, which is often so good it’s discouraging or so bad it’s discouraging.” Cathleen Schine Writes Fiction. But She Prefers Not to Read It at Work. 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

This wide-ranging collection of nonfiction by the major novelist includes pieces with titles like “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

“I had to escape or slip into that negative destructiveness that is the offspring of bitterness and frustration,” he wrote in a 1953 nonfiction account, “Return to Goli.” Peter Abrahams, whose novels detailed South Africa’s racial injustice, dies at 97 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

As with his other nonfiction work, it shares a hands-off approach, without voice-over or commentary. Sergei Loznitsa’s Movie ‘Austerlitz’ Observes Tourists in Concentration Camps 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

Indeed, we might argue that Chekhov invented the modern novel—and, for that matter, contemporary narrative nonfiction—along the way. Love in the Time of Numbness; or, Doctor Chekhov, Writer 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

But it is also darkly funny, playing in spots like a nonfiction “Veep.” 8 Political Campaign Documentaries Worth Streaming 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z

And the man who wrote what has been called the most important work of journalism of the twentieth century, as well as a shelf of best-selling novels and works of nonfiction, seems largely forgotten today. John Hersey, the Writer Who Let “Hiroshima” Speak for Itself 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

He is a well-regarded writer of fiction and nonfiction whose 2001 book, “Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch,” chronicled his effort to convert his land from beef to bison. As Bison Becomes More Popular, Two Views Emerge on How to Treat Them 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

Can she, as an adult and a relatively privileged one, possibly capture the reality of these children, in fiction or nonfiction? Valeria Luiselli Traces the Youngest Casualties of the Border Crisis 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

Mario Vargas Llosa’s “The Feast of the Goat” owes much to the riveting nonfiction account by Bernard Diederich, “Trujillo: The Death of the Goat.” By the Book: Julia Alvarez 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

On Thursday at 7:30 p.m., the talk show host Tavis Smiley will read from his latest nonfiction work, “Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’ Spare Times for Sept. 5-11 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

“His work was a harbinger of the nonfiction boom we’re seeing right now.” Pankaj Mishra’s New Book, ‘Ruins of Empire’ 2012-08-27T22:17:42Z

Carter Sickels has a novel coming out called "The Prettiest Star," and then my friend Catherine Venable Moore, who's an amazing nonfiction writer, has two books coming into the world soon. "The Third Rainbow Girl" author on the true story of a double murder she didn't set out to write 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z

In his three books of nonfiction — “The Beautiful Struggle,” “Between the World and Me” and “We Were Eight Years in Power” — he seemed to be almost single-handedly waking the consciousness of his country. With ‘The Water Dancer,’ Ta-Nehisi Coates Makes His Fiction Debut 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

A novelist’s nonfiction debut of historical and political criticism explores the re-emergence of fascist aesthetics and how they have infiltrated art, photography and social media in an age of constant scrolling. Newly Published, From the World Trade Center to a Cheeto-Loving Crow 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

Mr. Nathanson was intrigued, and he set about doing the research for what he imagined would be a nonfiction book about the company. E.M. Nathanson, 88, Author of ‘The Dirty Dozen’ 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Auden, Nabokov fearlessly professes such “strong opinions” — the title of the previous collection of his nonfiction — that he’s always immense fun to read. Review | Nabokov unplugged: A new collection of his essays delivers unvarnished opinions 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

Border politics have been important to Urrea — a prolific author of fiction, poetry and nonfiction — since he began his career with 1993’s “Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border.” A Novelist’s Exuberant Love Letter to a Mexican-American Clan 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

Tina Welling, who lives in Jackson, Wyoming, is the author of three novels and a nonfiction book, “Writing Wild: Forming a Creative Partnership with Nature.” No Hearing Aids? Then No Marriage 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

Yet her nonfiction was what spoke to me most. Post critic Carolyn See stood up to tastemakers and became one of her own 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z

The blockbuster nonfiction storyteller offers his look at the science of weather prediction and how the government handles information about the storms on their way. New & Noteworthy 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

“It’s like a dream come true for a nonfiction filmmaker. It was also a nightmare,” Vasarhelyi said about the arrival of all that footage after their film was supposedly finished. Their Thai Cave Rescue Film Was Done. Then 87 Hours of Footage Arrived. 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

“Our Time Is Now,” which appeared at No. 7 on last week’s hardcover nonfiction list, is, according to our reviewer, “a striking manifesto, a stirring indictment and a straightforward road map to victory.” Want to Be in Stacey Abrams’s Book Club? Sorry, It’s Family Only 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

Helen Epstein, the author of six books of nonfiction, writes a blog for the New England arts Web site theartsfuse.com. Books of The Times: Melanie Thernstrom?s ?Pain Chronicles?: The Cures and the Myths 2010-08-19T22:42:00Z

This is an ambitious undertaking, to turn a nonfiction bestseller into a true crime thriller, but it's not exactly thrilling. “Under the Banner of Heaven” sags with the heavy weight of history 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

“I was always a mid-list author,” he says, speaking of his nonfiction books, “Homicide” and “The Corner.” David Simon of ‘The Wire’ finds drama in public housing. But will the public tune in? 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

He meant that if you’re writing from life, whether in nonfiction or fiction, faithfulness to the facts doesn’t necessarily make for great writing. Have personal essays gotten too personal? 2013-03-17T17:00:00Z

The nonfiction food writing now aimed at adults contains somewhat different fantasies. The Allure of Imagined Meals 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

I was almost certainly taking a last look at novels and nonfiction I would never read or never return to. Review | All the books in my 300 boxes sparked joy. The lockdown made me rethink why I was keeping them. 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

After that he wrote prolifically: a dozen novels and short-story anthologies as well as four nonfiction books, including collections of essays on literary figures and travel. Alan Cheuse, Author and NPR Book Critic, Dies at 75 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

And now the Georgia native is back on the hardcover nonfiction list with “Humans,” a collection of photographs of and conversations with strangers on the street in more than 40 countries. Now More Than Ever, Brandon Stanton Makes People Feel Less Alone 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

He is currently working on several nonfiction projects, including a collection of essays on painting, music, and the arts. Award-winning author William Gass gets musical in new novel 2013-03-15T23:59:44Z

The challenge of writing nonfiction is to wrest strong material from something as tedious and uncooperative as reality. I like my imagined literary nemesis 2013-06-01T22:30:00Z

And for her first pick, she has chosen “Wild,” by Cheryl Strayed, a nonfiction retelling of the author’s epic hike of the Pacific Crest Trail that was published in March by Knopf. Media Decoder Blog: The Return of Oprah's Book Club 2012-06-01T22:03:03Z

This is an ambitious undertaking, to turn a nonfiction bestseller into a true crime thriller, but it's not exactly thrilling. “Under the Banner of Heaven” sags with the heavy weight of history 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

For myself, I like to wend my way to the chaise longue with a lemonade in one hand and ... not a novel, but a well-written book of nonfiction in the other. Summer reading: 10 nonfiction books to last the season 2012-06-15T17:01:34Z

Though that admission suggests a hazy relationship with the notion of true nonfiction, Leonard's reticence is understandable. Does Sugar Ray Leonard's sex abuse story hold up? 2011-06-13T22:01:00Z

The late journalist Michael Hastings wrote the nonfiction book “The Operators,” about the polarizing real-life U.S. Netflix's 'War Machine': Should the film business be concerned? 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

The result is her first work of nonfiction, a rich new memoir, Paris in Love. Mary Bly (aka Eloisa James) Talks to TIME About Her Literary Double Life 2012-05-18T11:00:52Z

But there has been a rich selection of nonfiction, some booksellers pointed out, praising publishers for the breadth of biographies, histories and quirky pop-economics titles released this fall. Steve Jobs Biography and Other Hot Titles Bookstore Lures 2011-12-12T23:48:19Z

Her first nonfiction collection brings together pieces touching on everything from Marilyn Monroe to the O. J. Simpson trial, along with book reviews and political pieces. New in Paperback: ‘See What Can Be Done,’ ‘The Gunners’ 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

“Straight Flush” adheres more closely to the standards of traditional nonfiction, than some of Mezrich’s previous outings. I like my imagined literary nemesis 2013-06-01T22:30:00Z

Was there a moment during that time when you thought: I could write more intimately about war with a novel rather than with a nonfiction book? Why tell an Iraq war story backwards? 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

The book ''70 Years of Best Sellers 1895-1965'' ranked ''Kids Say the Darndest Things'' as the 15th top seller among nonfiction books in that period. Art Linkletter, TV Host, Dies at 97 2010-05-26T19:57:00Z

Do you consider yourself a fiction or a nonfiction person? Sylvia Nasar: By the Book 2012-08-10T14:14:08Z

So I’m reading that for nonfiction, and for fiction I’m reading “We Need to Talk About Kevin.” Anna Sorokin on ‘Inventing Anna’ and Life After Rikers 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z

Samuel Coleridge was writing about poetry when he discussed the “willing suspension of disbelief,” but it comes in handy when reading “Demon Camp,” a work of nonfiction by Jennifer Percy. ‘Demon Camp’: hounded by the dead and the devils of war 2014-02-19T20:12:24Z

Anne’s diary, prepared for publication by Otto in 1947, has been outsold among nonfiction books, Smith tells us, only by the Bible. At Under the Radar, Family Histories Bubble Up With No Easy Answers 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z

She got the book deal with almost no experience in this nonfiction format. Researching Your Book? Hit the Casino 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

Groom also wrote nonfiction on diverse subjects including the Civil War, World War I and Alabama’s Crimson Tide football. ‘Forrest Gump’ author Winston Groom dead at 77 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

That’s scary stuff for a nonfiction writer, or for any writer; but it is also kind of exciting. Steven Church talks essays, and his new book 'Ultrasonic' 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

The result, published Tuesday, is the graphic novel, Army of God: Joseph Kony's War in Central Africa – the latest addition to the niche genre of "conflict-based, nonfiction comic reporting". Joseph Kony graphic novel illustrates personal stories of violent campaign 2013-03-15T17:57:21Z

That was a great challenge to think about, and a great way to think about nonfiction sort of expanding over real estate in a way that keeps people coming back for more. HBO Documentary Has Competition. These Women Don’t Seem Worried. 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z

Paul Theroux is the author of “The Great Railway Bazaar,” “The Mosquito Coast” and “Riding the Iron Rooster,” among many other highly acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction. Read Your Way Through Boston 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z

There are five finalists each in four categories: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young adult literature. National Book Awards 2014 shortlists announced 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

How is writing nonfiction different from writing fiction? Lorrie Moore has some instructions on how to read her new book 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

The film critics named Werner Herzog's documentary "The Cave of Forgotten Dreams," a 3D movie about a cave in southern France, as the year's best nonfiction film. "Melancholia", Dunst, Pitt win film critics awards 2012-01-07T22:45:06Z

I’m concerned with similar things in both my fiction and my nonfiction. Leslie Jamison and Roxane Gay: “Men are crowned as the gold standard of the genre. It’s gonna change” 2014-04-24T23:00:00Z

For this year’s prize, the judges considered 68 fiction and nonfiction young-adult titles published in 2016 by authors whose work featured a diverse main character or addressed diversity. Rep. John Lewis: I hope my book inspires people to ‘speak up and speak out’ 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

The figure marked the largest first-day sales for any nonfiction book ever published by Penguin Random House, the world’s largest publisher. Prince Harry’s Memoir Has Record Breaking Sales 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z

It’s some of the best narrative nonfiction TV I’ve ever seen. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘O.J.: Made in America’ and the Tony Awards 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

Jim Ruland reviews “Stalin’s Meteorologist,” a nonfiction book originally published in France, that looks at the unfortunate fate of one man who believed in the leader of his nation. Books: The new Trump book, plus book reviews and news 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z

In common, I suspect, with most writers of historical narrative nonfiction, I struggle with historical fiction: What is true? By the Book: Ben Macintyre 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

Her memoir, “The Man Who Could Move Clouds,” was a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction. For This Brooklyn Family, Myth and Reality Are One and the Same 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z

What puts him above the rank of most nonfiction authors, even some of the better ones, is that he doesn’t merely present information. Books of The Times: Nikil Saval’s ‘Cubed’ Tells the History of the Modern Workplace 2014-04-24T19:44:01Z

“Paradise of the Pacific,” Ms. Moore’s new nonfiction book about Hawaii — where she grew up and now lives — provides a fascinating history of that Pacific archipelago, though it lacks the evocative sorcery of her novels. Review: ‘Paradise of the Pacific,’ the Hard Truths of Hawaii’s History 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

Nothing highlights the fragility of some adults quite like the campaign against this nonfiction picture book about two male penguins in New York’s Central Park Zoo. Perspective | For Banned Books Week, I read the country’s 10 most challenged books. The gay penguins did not corrupt me. 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z

But the chosen subject is addressed through various fiction and nonfiction genres, supplied by writers both celebrated and unknown, who also make up a significant part of the magazine’s readership. Granta Expands Its Foreign Editions 2012-09-03T19:50:24Z

My MFA in nonfiction made me a novelist. Too real for reality TV — or even memoir: The new novels that dare use fiction to reveal secret truths 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

Despite its being mostly a novelization of Mr. Haley’s family history, the book was on the nonfiction list. ‘Roots,’ the Series That Had Everyone Talking 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

Despite this promising start, my next publication didn’t happen until 2009, when the Irish Times accepted a nonfiction article about au pairs. This Week in Fiction: Danielle McLaughlin 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

The prizes were established in 1998 to honor “excellence in nonfiction that exemplifies … literary grace and commitment to serious research and social concern.” Finalists announced for J. Anthony Lukas book prizes 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

It’s not often that a nonfiction book appears whose thesis is immediately tested by events. ArtsBeat: 'The Net Delusion' and the Egypt Crisis 2011-02-04T21:33:53Z

Not every piece of short nonfiction writing is an opinion piece, crafted to advance a particular argument. Have we forgotten how to read critically? 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z

When Danielle is not out with friends, she plays with Levi and reads nonfiction, particularly young women’s stories about overcoming adversity. A seven-year search for justice 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

As a writer of nonfiction, I’m drawn to the same kind of flawed characters that fascinated Lean — and Benedict Arnold would have offered him a perfect subject. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Fresh Look at Benedict Arnold’s Treason 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

By midcentury, she had made journalistic history by pioneering the kind of novelistic nonfiction that inspired later work like Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood.” Lillian Ross’s (Many) Choice Words 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

Ann Patchett, who has written eight novels and five books of nonfiction, says that when faced with writer's block, sometimes it seems that the muse has "gone out back for a smoke." The 5,000-year history of writer’s block 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z

Same thing for nonfiction programming: History is one of cable's top networks now, and it's because of pawn shop operators and Arctic Circle truckers, not Civil War documentaries. New fall TV season? How about summer? 2011-07-05T22:01:05Z

Referring to an overlap between fiction and nonfiction, he said, “Eric is speaking from a French tradition where that blending is much more recognized.” Coloring History’s Gray Areas, With Strong Moral Outrage 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z

Do you read more fiction or nonfiction, and what’s your favorite genre? Alison Weir: By the Book 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

Some great nonfiction for spring about race, politics, adversity and ambition: New spring nonfiction dips into social issues and politics 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z

The “hard blue skies” that Truman Capote described as hovering over rural Kansas in his pioneering 1966 nonfiction book, “In Cold Blood,” are turned black and white in this celebrated film adaptation from Richard Brooks. What’s on TV This Week: ‘In Cold Blood’ and ‘The Black Church’ 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z

Ward chronicles the stories of poor, rural Southerners, invoking racial history and examining present racial divides, in lyrical novels and nonfiction rooted in Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, where she was raised and still lives. MacArthur winner Jesmyn Ward writes socially conscious works set in the South 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

Self, the author of six novels, four story collections, three books of novellas and five works of nonfiction, is almost as notorious for his rakish behavior as he is for his writing. 2010-01-01T00:14:00Z

There’s an asceticism, a kind of Zen purity, to “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About,” a new collection of Saul Bellow’s nonfiction, issued now on the centenary of his birth. Review: Revisiting Saul Bellow’s Words, on Society, Chicago and Other Writers 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

“The Egg and I” surprised everyone by climbing to No. 1 on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list, where it remained for 43 weeks. The plucky author behind the classic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

The book catalyzed a debate about the boundaries of nonfiction storytelling. George Jonas, Whose Book Was the Basis of the Film ‘Munich,’ Dies at 80 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

Steve Sheinkin’s Bomb: The Race to Build — and Steal — the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon was named the best nonfiction book and the “most distinguished informational” book. Applegate Wins Newbery; Klassen Takes Caldecott 2013-01-28T21:53:11Z

It is now ranked sixth on the paperback nonfiction list, where it has been for 315 weeks. Nicole & Co: Jeannette Walls — ‘Dysfunctional families are what I know’ 2013-06-20T00:00:07Z

After more than three decades of serious treatment by acclaimed historians and nonfiction writers, from Robin D. G. Kelley to Vivian Gornick, this subject is hardly one of life’s great mysteries. Can Communists Be Good Americans? 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

Though its detractors might argue, “Capital” is nonfiction. What are the most-checked-out books at Seattle Public Library? 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

It’s as irrational to draw a hard line between fiction and nonfiction as it is to put one between the sea and dry land—but it’s even less reasonable to deny that there’s a difference. “The Jinx” and the Blight of Documentary Reënactments 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

That is a useful way of understanding all the many pop nonfiction books that speculate about the technologies of the future, and attempt to divine their effects on human beings. Two Books Wonder: How Long Until You Fall in Love With a Robot? 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

Writing a book of nonfiction demands that you find people who have had an interesting or harrowing or profound experience and persuade them to talk about it. My Stories Become Someone Else’s: Adapting a Book to Film 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

In recent years, Vidal wrote the novel "The Smithsonian Institution" and the nonfiction best sellers "Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace" and "Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta." Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T17:33:11Z

His father, who had penned one mediocre novel, was adamant: Write if you must, but journalism and nonfiction. Writer Joe McGinniss Jr. follows in his famous father’s footsteps, with a novel twist 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

In nonfiction, Senior recommends Gary Younge’s troubling and important look at 10 young people killed in the space of a single day in America. 10 Books We Recommend This Week 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

In a "nonfiction world," the purpose of fiction is to "affect and change and move people." Festival of Books: YA authors' love of 'firsts' 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z

I don’t read a lot of nonfiction, except if it’s something someone has recommended to me, but when I find a great novel I love nothing more than just losing myself in it. Anderson Cooper Wishes His Parents and Truman Capote Could Reconcile Over Dinner 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

The lives of historical figures intersect in so many ways that “The Third Coast” rolls along like a nonfiction version of E.L. ‘The Third Coast’: Chicago’s chapters in the book of American culture 2013-04-25T20:47:58Z

Sensitive to the ways historical narratives can rub out the rough patches of reality, Spufford finally becomes disenchanted with nonfiction and embraces novel writing as a better vehicle for capturing ambiguity, ambivalence and contradiction. An Essayist Searching for Alternate Worlds 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

In a 2004 interview with the syndicated newspaper feature the Mini Page, Mr. Murphy reflected on his favorite part of a nonfiction project. Jim Murphy, Who Wrote Vivid Histories for the Young, Dies at 74 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

Every generation, for instance, boasts its particular nonfiction guru. Perspective | To read or reread? New books are alluring, but don’t discount the value of the familiar 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

The very essence of the format of serial television is information masquerading as art; its actual competition isn’t movies or museums or even novels but nonfiction, journalism, radio discussions, and podcasts. “The Girlfriend Experience” Is Not an Experience 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

The titles range from board books and picture books for babies and elementary school children, to nonfiction coding manuals, activity books and journals, and a series of novels featuring girl coders. Teaching Kids Coding, by the Book 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

In 2008, Mr. Amis published “The Second Plane,” a collection of 12 pieces of nonfiction and two short stories about the Western world and terror. Martin Amis, Acclaimed Author of Bleakly Comic Novels, Dies at 73 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z

While that arrangement could probably be made clearer in the film, “House Two” is compulsively watchable — a nonfiction whodunit that methodically sifts through evidence to establish the circumstances surrounding the killings in a Haditha home. 17 Movies to Enjoy for the Tribeca Film Festival’s 17th Edition 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

One of the areas that women's publishing houses particularly championed, feminist nonfiction, is thriving and seems to be tapping directly into this mood of uncertainty. Has Virago changed the publishing world's attitudes towards women? 2013-03-14T08:00:02Z

Mikita Brottman is one of today’s finest practitioners of nonfiction that explores the uncertain truths revealed when violence crashes into human life. ‘Worse Than a Prison’: Hospitals for the Criminally Insane 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

Terence Davies' "Of Time and the City," which is both a documentary and a personal narrative, was chosen as best "nonfiction film." 2009-12-14T08:01:00Z

He went on to publish two more novels and a collection of short stories before gradually switching over to nonfiction. David Quammen’s ‘Spillover’ Owes Much to Faulkner 2012-10-20T02:34:03Z

As a child and teenager, those beloved genres were comic books, science fiction, fantasy and war stories, both fiction and nonfiction. Viet Thanh Nguyen: By the Book 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

“Of the nonfiction books lately that seems to be the one that people are asking about the most,” Mr. Sato said. Boy?s Tale of Heaven Is Publishing Phenomenon 2011-03-11T12:25:34Z

Former President Barack Obama shared his summer reading list on social media on Wednesday, offering a mix of novels, short story collections and nonfiction for anyone, in his words, “looking for some suggestions.” Obama Shares His Summer Reading List 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

Tara Westover’s “Educated” tops The Toronto Star’s nonfiction list, and Daniel Silva’s “The Other Woman” is the country’s best-selling novel. Around the World With Books: A Peek at Global Best-Seller Lists 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

But if your interests range beyond recent Hollywood releases — into, say, older, foreign or nonfiction films — the prospect of another change in format brings a mixed sense of hope and fear. Video: Goodbye, DVD. Hello, Future. 2011-03-05T05:23:01Z

“I work from libraries a lot, and my wallet is full of library cards,” says Rebecca Giggs, an Australian author whose “Fathoms: The World in the Whale” received the nonfiction prize Thursday. Library association awards Carnegie medals to McBride, Giggs 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

Sometimes, despite everyone's best efforts, minor mistakes appear in nonfiction books. Ping Fu controversy over childhood tales of China's cultural revolution 2013-02-13T13:47:38Z

The film was based on a nonfiction book by Michael Lewis and cost about $50 million to produce. 3D 'Lion King' rules box office for second week 2011-09-25T18:58:34Z

When in doubt, stick an “s” on the end of a word like “nonfiction” and you’re all set. Have personal essays gotten too personal? 2013-03-17T17:00:00Z

But that was before the success of “Welcome to Night Vale” and the debut of “Serial,” the nonfiction show that raised podcasts to the level of popular culture. And the Awards for Best Audio Fiction Go to … 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z

“Hillbilly Elegy” is now in second place on the Times nonfiction best-seller list. The Lives of Poor White People 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

So, can you talk a bit about your decision, or your commitment, to writing this as a novel instead of exploring these themes in nonfiction, either memoir or essay form? "My Dark Vanessa" author: Canceling Nabokov's "Lolita" is "missing the point" of society's problem 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

"There's really something for everybody at the Texas Book Festival," said Laura Bush, adding that the festival includes fiction and nonfiction writers and authors of children's books. Laura Bush announces Texas Book Festival lineup 2012-09-12T21:49:09Z

The real problem exists in some murky, made-for-TV zone between nonfiction and fiction. Review | What Nat Geo’s ‘Hot Zone’ lacks in action, it makes up for in contagious paranoia 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z

On Feb. 9, 2020, it first appeared at No. 14 on the paperback nonfiction list; it is now in its 30th week, at No. 9. Timing, Patience and Wisdom Are the Secrets to Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Success 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z

The magazine is currently conducting a contest for iStories — works of fiction or nonfiction in 150 words or less. Book briefs

Dinerstein: I think I'm more of a fan of nonfiction stories and thriller, and true crime has evolved into some of the best stuff out there. "The Most Dangerous Animal of All" asks what if your dad was the Zodiac Killer? 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

“There was no reason to think that wouldn’t hold true for nonfiction as well,” she said. It’s a Long Story: ‘O.J.: Made in America’ Seeks Your Time 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

And one real-life figure you first encountered in a work of nonfiction? Tom Hanks: By the Book 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

The nonfiction horror story told in “One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway” moves slowly, inexorably and with tremendous authority. Review: ‘One of Us,’ by Asne Seierstad, on Anders Breivik’s Rampage in Norway 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

Kennedy hasn't announced her next project, but she calls this "a really exciting time for documentaries," with new avenues for audiences to easily locate nonfiction films online, on-demand and in theaters. Rory Kennedy recounts the 1975 fall of Saigon in new film 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

His new nonfiction feature, "George Harrison: Living in the Material World," will premiere on HBO in October. "Boardwalk Empire" brings Martin Scorsese an Emmy 2011-09-19T04:26:45Z

The theater, in the center's Chinatown home, will show first-run nonfiction films throughout the year, providing a meeting place for established and emerging filmmakers and their audiences. ArtsBeat: A Documentary-Only Film Theater for New York 2012-10-08T18:19:34Z

Titled “O Horizon,” it might be described as a species of creative nonfiction, an interpretive documentary. At the Rubin Museum, the Future Has Arrived. And It’s Fluid. 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

"I love to read both fiction and nonfiction and I feel strongly about the power of reading," Luck said. NFL book club: Michael Bennett gets the Seattle Seahawks to tackle books 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, PBS will enhance its production of nonfiction programming under a major new partnership with the BBC. PBS teams with Ridley Scott for Civil War hospital drama 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

In the decades since he died, Till’s murder and the still-shocking photographs of his body have been the subject of innumerable news stories, scholarly articles, nonfiction books, novels, poems, documentaries, podcasts, websites and exhibitions. ‘Till’ Review: He Was Someone’s Son, Too 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

Dozens of films — fiction and nonfiction, feature-length and shorts — will be shown over five days. Dance Listings for Jan. 30-Feb. 5 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Bedford’s works of fiction and nonfiction are dense, exotic and rich even as they draw primarily on her own life. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

In a career spanning 56 years, she has published more than 40 books that crisscross the literary spectrum, from historical novels to science fiction, poetry, short stories, children’s books and nonfiction. Margaret Atwood, Digital Deep-Diver, Writes ‘The Heart Goes Last’ 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

She also read a lot of nonfiction about issues of race and class, which became pillars of her story about a nanny, her employer and all that goes unspoken between the two. Kiley Reid Has Done Her Share of Soul-Searching in Coffee Shops 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

That year, Mr. Coates was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship and the National Book Award in nonfiction. Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Making of a Public Intellectual 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

Topping our nonfiction bestseller list this week is Springsteen’s memoir “Born to Run,” now in its fourth week on the list. Welcome to the new L.A. Times books newsletter 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

Who are some of your favorite authors, in fiction or nonfiction? ArtsBeat: Reviewer Spotlight: Annie Sprinkle on Sex, Art and Activism 2011-07-01T19:55:41Z

In a series of nonfiction books since then, he has acted as a kind of cosmopolitan Yoda, dispensing gnomic wisdom about Proust, travel, architecture, work and religion. Review: ‘Labor of Love’ and ‘The Course of Love,’ on Finding and Keeping It 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

Producing good nonfiction TV entails striking a balance between the imperative to determine what actually happened and the imperative to tell a story that works on the screen. David Simon of ‘The Wire’ finds drama in public housing. But will the public tune in? 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

It has been suggested this disparity might be because women publish fewer works of serious fiction and nonfiction than men. Has Virago changed the publishing world's attitudes towards women? 2013-03-14T08:00:02Z

It’s the blend of the fiction voice and then the nonfiction—the essayistic voice—in the novel that was such a winning combination for me. Barry Jenkins on “The Fire Next Time” and “If Beale Street Could Talk” 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z

A book about the conflict between Muslims and Christians and one about the migration of black Americans from south to north won the 2011 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards for exceptional nonfiction. ArtsBeat: Winners of Lukas Prizes For Nonfiction 2011-04-18T23:23:08Z

Gilbert King's "Devil in the Grove" won for general nonfiction and Sharon Olds' "Stag's Leap" for poetry. Adam Johnson wins fiction Pulitzer 2013-04-15T19:13:12Z

“Big Black” follows in the footsteps of recent nonfiction graphic novels. A Graphic Novel Remembers Attica 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

At first, Levingston, The Washington Post’s nonfiction book editor, draws these two lives as parallel lines. Kennedy and King: The remarkable intersection of two great lives 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

So much of the work of nonfiction writing—and this is equally true of documentary photography—is figuring out where to look. Wanting to See Like Robert Frank 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

But for a highly wrought and publicized work of narrative nonfiction, fostering a misleading impression about the timing of such an important series of events would be a significant lapse. Why Is the Timeline of 'The Jinx' So Confusing? 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

The authors certainly would appear to have the credentials for a revelatory work of narrative nonfiction. How Citigroup Escaped Financial Disaster in 2008 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z

Wallace said he felt a "comparative ease and pleasure" in writing nonfiction. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: D. T. Max on David Foster Wallace 2012-09-12T16:30:39Z

Steve Sheinkin’s new nonfiction thriller about the Cold War is like one of its key emblems, the U-2 spy plane: fast, lean and able to survey a huge amount of territory. Steve Sheinkin’s Explosive Sequel to ‘Bomb’ 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

Dyer, a Brit who lives part of the year in Los Angeles, writes books that often push the boundaries of nonfiction. Windham Campbell prizes go to Geoff Dyer, Teju Cole, others 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

Similarly, when nonfiction writers start to speculate about the past, you know they have run out of real road and the book hits the wall. By the Book: Ben Macintyre 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

Cinema Eye Honors, which recognizes nonfiction filmmaking, held its 10th annual awards ceremony on Wednesday at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens. Fireworks and Film 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

Kirkus will award prizes annually in three categories: fiction, nonfiction and young readers literature. Kirkus Media announces new $50,000 literary prizes 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

This list is organized by fiction and nonfiction — within those categories by month of publication. 43 new books for fall 2013 2013-08-24T21:21:11Z

Which fiction or nonfiction writers inspired you most early your career? Ben Sasse: By the Book 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

It won the National Book Award, sold well despite exceeding 800 pages and later was ranked No. 71 by the Modern Library among the 20th century's best English-language nonfiction books. William H McNeill, prize-winning world historian, dead at 98 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

But he was still persuaded by the mushrooms’ message, which was, he later wrote in his strange, excellent nonfiction book about psychedelics, “Trip,” to “leave society.” Tao Lin and the Grueling Art of Self-Healing 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z

Lacey earned her MFA at Columbia University, not in fiction but in nonfiction. Faces to watch: Remember these authors and their books 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

That was a unique experience — trusting and collaborating, melding nonfiction with story so openly. Meryl Streep, Diane Lane and Others on the Legacy of Elizabeth Swados 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Samatar, a novelist, turns to nonfiction in this complex work combining religious and personal history. 15 Memoirs and Biographies to Read This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

Coates, who recently was awarded a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship, received the nonfiction prize for "Between the World and Me," an incisive inquiry into race in America. Hanya Yanagihara and Ta-Nehisi Coates win Kirkus Prizes 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

Needing money after two years of school, he took jobs making industrial and educational films, which essentially became his apprenticeship, teaching him the technical rudiments of nonfiction filmmaking under real conditions. Icon of Indie films Les Blank dies 2013-04-08T04:13:39Z

What he invented, in “A Modest Proposal,” was not just that fatuously self-satisfied narrative voice, but the whole idea of a counterfactual work of nonfiction. The joy of literary destruction: Writers who broke all the rules 2014-01-19T15:00:00Z

On Dec. 16, Nezhukumatathil was helping her fifth grader practice for a spelling bee when she learned that the book was No. 5 on the hardcover nonfiction list. Aimee Nezhukumatathil Wants You to Get Some Fresh Air 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

She is the author of numerous books, both fiction and nonfiction. Review: ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage,’ by Haruki Murakami

The story, based on a nonfiction book by the journalist Nicholas Pileggi, spans years. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Coded Bias’ and ‘Tina’ 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

But it’s obvious that Bogdanovich is also speaking about Welles and already blurring the line — between fiction and nonfiction, the director and his protagonist — that will only grow more indistinguishable as the story unfolds. Review: ‘The Other Side of the Wind’ Is Orson Welles’s Haunted Hall of Mirrors 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

His work in fiction and nonfiction explores the Vietnam War and the greater refugee experience. MacArthur fellows for 2017: a tragicomic novelist, an 'Afropolitan' painter and more 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

Topics: , , , writing and writers, Nonfiction, creative nonfiction, , , Dear Cary, I am a writer. Is journalism killing my creativity? 2013-04-01T00:00:00Z

Once you’ve read his intelligent and ingenious books, many other nonfiction writers seem merely to be issuing, to steal a phrase from a Charles Portis novel, “foul grunting.” Review: Francis Spufford’s First Novel Is a Swashbuckling Tale 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

Nguyen, a former student of Kingston’s creative nonfiction class when he attended the UC Berkeley, recalled how horrible a student he was. Authors Viet Thanh Nguyen and Maxine Hong Kingston dish on war and peace 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

“So the sun is reading a nonfiction book, because that makes him smarter. And ‘bright’ is another word for smart.” Summer Book Club: 'Out of This World'

Ms. Garner has written both fiction and nonfiction. Nine Authors, Playwrights Win $150,000 Windham-Campbell Prizes 1456-09-16T05:00:00Z

On the nonfiction end, an unusually large chunk of titles center on sports and athletes: basketball, football, baseball, ice hockey, rugby, mixed martial arts and even IndyCar racing are represented. The Tribeca Festival Has a Story to Tell 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

“The Getaway Car” may seem an odd title for a nonfiction miscellany, but it derives from a remark by Abby Adams Westlake. Michael Dirda reviews ‘The Getaway Car,’ a collection of Donald E. Westlake pieces

They might as well just read a nonfiction essay on the world. Elisabeth Moss on Her Emmy Nomination and ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z

It’s very easy to imagine well-meaning, left-leaning nonfiction filmmakers trying to bridge American cultures by making movies that patronize the very audience they’re trying to reach. Left-Leaning Documentary World Seeks Right-Wing Perspective 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

It’s interesting to compare “Languages of Truth” with another book of Rushdie’s nonfiction, “Imaginary Homelands,” published in 1991. In ‘Languages of Truth,’ Salman Rushdie Defends the Extraordinary 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z

Soon into Alex Gibney’s investigative documentary “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief,” you hear him lob a question at Lawrence Wright, the author of the 2013 nonfiction book the movie is based on. Review: Alex Gibney Takes On Scientology in ‘Going Clear’ 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Instead of photo galleries of Justin Bieber licking a baby panda, Narrative offers poetry, creative nonfiction, essays, short stories and even long stories. Book briefs

The ALA also announced the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in fiction and nonfiction for adults. American Library Assn.'s 2017 award winners include 'March: Book Three' by Rep. John Lewis 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

It ranked at the top of the New York Times nonfiction best-seller list for 22 weeks, selling 15 million copies in less than a year. Alex Haley Taught America About Race — and a Young Man How to Write 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

Wharton, whose 40-plus books include classic novels such as “The Age of Innocence” as well as nonfiction works, was the first female Pulitzer Prize winner. Six female writers’ homes you can tour, including the one where Alcott penned ‘Little Women’ 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

And I read so much nonfiction that the details stack up in my head and need a rearranging sometimes. This Week in Fiction: Tom Hanks 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

What did they hope to achieve with their novels, stories and nonfiction? ‘The Fellowship’ explores the spiritual roots of Tolkien and the Inklings 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

It earned him the National Book Award for nonfiction. ‘Howard trained me intellectually’: Ta-Nehisi Coates to speak at school’s Charter Day 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

Longlists for poetry, nonfiction and fiction will be announced over the next three days. National Book Awards list for translation has global reach 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

Few writers eviscerate bias and flawed logic as elegantly and ruthlessly as Hustvedt, whose many works of fiction and nonfiction include the acclaimed 2014 novel “The Blazing World.” Siri Hustvedt wonders why we revere the intellect and distrust the body 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

Funded by charity the Wellcome Trust, the prize aims to bridge the gap between literature and science and is open to fiction or nonfiction works with a health or medical theme. Bloody saga wins medical book prize 2012-11-07T20:32:15Z

In a sense, this is the great limitation of nonfiction, which has the power to entice you with the truth, but lacks the ability to help you transcend it. Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars by Sonia Faleiro ? review 2011-07-29T10:30:01Z

Right now publishers are pushing a lot of picture book nonfiction — much of it quite dreary — and this book is a welcome reminder that a story can be factual without exactly being true. Mac Barnett Reviews Picture Books About Time and Space 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

In a career that covers more than three decades, she has written 14 novels, as well as poetry, children’s books, short stories and nonfiction. Louise Erdrich Wins Library of Congress Award 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

I don’t really read nonfiction, with the exception of biographies. Why Olga Tokarczuk Likes to Read T.S. Eliot in Translation 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

One of Seattle's deepest-thinking authors — science fiction, nonfiction, essays — discusses "Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing" in conversation with Stranger book editor Paul Constant. 14 top entertainment picks for the week beginning Aug. 5-11, 2012 2012-08-01T21:20:05Z

The programmers of MoMA’s annual nonfiction festival have emphasized the work of female filmmakers, who constitute a significant number of the featured directors. 5 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

The award Monday for general nonfiction went to Dan Fagin's "Toms River," an acclaimed chronicle of industrial destruction in small New Jersey community. Donna Tartt wins fiction Pulitzer for 'Goldfinch' 2014-04-14T19:24:10Z

Among his other well-known works are his nonfiction book "Blues People: Negro Music in White America" and the poems "In Memory of Radio" and "An Agony. As Now." Playwright, poet and activist Amiri Baraka dies at 79 2014-01-10T00:26:34Z

The new shows continue what has been a somewhat meek introduction of original dramas and comedies at Yahoo, which has huge viewership for its nonfiction video offerings. Watch List: Yahoo! Screen Introduces Shows With Puppets and a Tiny Rambo 2013-09-08T21:53:03Z

This year, Mr. Herzog brought a new nonfiction film “Death Row” to a festival that has traditionally had a strong documentary presence. Critic’s Notebook: At Telluride Festival, a Redford Solo and Other Previews 2013-09-02T21:37:32Z

In nonfiction, we recommend a book about games and two about Chinese culture. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

Ms. Smith won a National Book Award in nonfiction last year for “Just Kids,” a memoir of her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe and her bohemian adventures in New York in the 1960s and ’70s. Rock Stars of Books: Musicians? Big Sales 2011-07-08T22:31:03Z

He also said that he was drawing upon nonfiction works, including books by Seymour Hersh, Robert Dallek, David Talbot and others. 2010-02-16T23:30:00Z

What occasioned to the transition over to nonfiction? Chloe Shaw on when she first asked, "What Is a Dog?": "I wrote from a place of specified grief" 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z

Twenty novels, 14 nonfiction books, two children's books, four screenplays. Melvyn Bragg: 'I'm a class mongrel' ? interview 2012-02-12T00:06:06Z

Film producers who were glued to the news sensed the stuff of next-wave nonfiction — an action hero, in a real-life global drama. Filmmakers Embrace Reality, on the High Seas and Beyond 2013-07-17T15:36:51Z

It makes no more sense to me to argue that finales that “answer all the questions” are better than to argue that modernism is better than impressionism, or nonfiction is better than poetry. Breaking Bad Watch: Say Hello to My Little Friend 2013-09-30T04:37:59Z

Tracy Kidder, author of “Mountains Beyond Mountains,” is a contemporary master of narrative nonfiction. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Documentaries may be nonfiction, but they can and should be much more than just the facts. In the Golden Age of documentaries, the medium could use more artistry 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

So I think the nonfiction has helped me as a writer. How Covid Got Gish Jen Thinking About China 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z

The National Book Foundation hosted the award ceremony, presenting high literary nods to authors in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people’s literature. These Are the Winners of the 2014 National Book Awards 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

Books about politics, race and racism and practical, domestic tasks like cooking were in high demand and drove nonfiction sales. What Snoop Dogg’s Success Says About the Book Industry 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z

So, yes, when I have an idea set in my mind — characters, situations, some kind of ending — I will stubbornly refuse to read anything even remotely similar, whether fiction or nonfiction. How Jeff VanderMeer Prevents Writer’s Block 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

As she recast it, Croft found herself completely rewriting it as illustrated nonfiction, and the English version, “Homesick,” which Unnamed Press released in 2019, was published as a memoir. Shining a Spotlight on the Art of Translation 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

I write narrative nonfiction — true stories, usually about young people, who live in that gray area between right and wrong and do something wild and incredible. I like my imagined literary nemesis 2013-06-01T22:30:00Z

The book topped the nonfiction best seller lists when it was released in 2018 — not just in America, but around the world. Michelle Obama’s Memoir ‘Becoming’ Will Be a Netflix Documentary 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

Both of these documentaries, like most of the nonfiction work I saw at this year’s Sundance, were more intellectually engaging than formally revelatory, even with their visual flights of fancy. At Last Back at Sundance, Filled With Rocky Relationships and Glorious Writers 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z

When he picks up nonfiction, Mr. Powers says, he finds that the books he most enjoys share those same characteristics. Stuck in a Reading Rut? How to Create New Book Habits 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

That a nonfiction film about Ms. Gruber hasn’t been made before is surprising. Recounting the Past of a Witness to History 2010-09-03T15:19:00Z

And more big bucks: A nonfiction book from MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Angela Duckworth also garnered seven figures, according to Publishers Weekly. Highlights from the Frankfurt Book Fair 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

“The New Class War,” by Michael Lind, the author of numerous books of nonfiction, fiction and poetry, anchors itself firmly in the why-is-this-happening genre. Why Do Trump Supporters Support Trump? 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

Unlike many best-selling nonfiction writers, Pollan doesn’t write self-help books that cross-dress as narrative nonfiction. Michael Pollan Drops Acid — and Comes Back From His Trip Convinced 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

Five years and eight drafts later, Mr. Larson’s new book, “Dead Wake,” to be released by Crown on Tuesday, is shaping up to be one of the biggest nonfiction titles of the year. Erik Larson, Author of ‘Dead Wake,’ Seizes Historical Mysteries 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

The modern cinema runs on the very notion of the fusion of fiction and nonfiction. “The Jinx” and the Blight of Documentary Reënactments 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

Brief quotes give the text the veneer of nonfiction, and keep the narrative at arm’s length, rather than pull you close as fiction often attempts to. Julie Otsuka Dives Into the Underground World of the Community Pool 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

In his popular nonfiction volume, "Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found," Suketu Mehta shed light on another aspect of this metropolis — its violent criminal underworld. 'Mumbai Fables': Gyan Prakash's fact-packed, rewarding history of the city 2010-12-22T22:06:04Z

Even switching from the traditional novel to this new nonfiction novel can’t stop this flood. The Strange Prophecies in Norman Mailer’s “The Armies of the Night” 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

The old thriller was based on the novel “Monkey in the Middle”; the new one originated with “The Feather Men,” a British book that was sold as nonfiction but may not have been. | 'Killer Elite': ?Killer Elite,? With Jason Statham and Robert De Niro ? Review 2011-09-23T04:13:02Z

Pennebaker had been looking to strike out on his own after toiling on nonfiction films for Time Life. Images from Bob Dylan and D.A. Pennebaker's 'Don't Look Back' revisit the poetry and power of change 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z

The show recently won an Emmy for outstanding hosted nonfiction series. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ and ‘The Real Love Boat’ 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z

The author of more than 30 novels, plays and works of nonfiction, he is known for his expansive language, his alertness to the profound and the profane, and his fierce and dark disdain for tyranny. Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel literature prize 2010-10-07T19:38:00Z

The works of two other winners also centered on young boys - Boo's for nonfiction, and William Alexander's fantasy "Goblin Secrets," for young people's literature. Erdrich wins her first National Book Award 2012-11-15T15:12:08Z

Silas, my youngest, had made double the recipe of his favorite snack mix, and Henry had a nonfiction children’s book on roadkill that he assured us was riveting. A latecomer to the #vanlife party takes a 4,000-mile road trip in a pop-up camper 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wilson’s next nonfiction book, “Religion and the Rebel,” a sequel to “The Outsider” published in 1957, was far less well received. Colin Wilson, Author of ‘The Outsider,’ Dies at 82 2013-12-12T17:03:34Z

Literary nonfiction is what I would gravitate to first, but I read a lot of fiction, classic and modern.” Boutique Publisher Names New Chief 2010-09-16T07:20:00Z

That he hasn’t won a nonfiction National Book Award or Pulitzer Prize is an embarrassment. Books of The Times: ‘Spillover,’ by David Quammen, on How Animals Infect Humans 2012-10-02T22:11:49Z

The general nonfiction prize was given to "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" by Siddhartha Mukherjee, while the music prize went to Zhou Long for "Madame White Snake." Jennifer Egan wins fiction Pulitzer 2011-04-18T19:56:20Z

Why is this a novel and not nonfiction? Masha and Keith Gessen on Writing About Russia 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z

Stephen Greenblatt's "The Swerve," a dramatic account of the Renaissance era rediscovery of the Latin poet Lucretius, won for nonfiction Wednesday night. Jesmyn Ward's 'Salvage' wins National Book Award 2011-11-17T03:58:07Z

But the majority of his nonfiction work has been in a lighter and more celebratory vein — music and comedy concert films, music videos, profiles of athletes like Kobe Bryant and Jim Brown. Review: Michael Jackson, Before He Was King 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

Mr. Herzog may be the master of the wildly ambitious documentary that achieves sublimity by acknowledging its own limits, and as such the exemplary nonfiction filmmaker of the moment. Captivating Films, Complicated Truths 2011-07-23T00:03:17Z

Her memoir, “Group,” was No. 6 on last week’s hardcover nonfiction list and is Reese Witherspoon’s latest selection for her book club. Christie Tate Wrote a Best Seller About Group Therapy. Fellow Members Approved. 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

In April 2013, the series became the most successful program in A&E’s 30-year history; four months later, its fourth season premiere was the most watched nonfiction telecast ever to air on cable television. How Low Will Duck Dynasty’s Ratings Go? 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

And now comes “The Getaway Car,” a collection of Westlake’s nonfiction — essays, introductions, letters and interviews — expertly compiled by Levi Stahl with a foreword by Lawrence Block. Michael Dirda reviews ‘The Getaway Car,’ a collection of Donald E. Westlake pieces

As such, it dovetails nicely with the nonfiction writings described by Beha. British Nuns, General Motors and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

The more interesting question, of course, is why Roy clung to nonfiction, and how she engages within it—the timbre of her reaction to demagoguery, inequality, corporate malfeasance, and the spoliation of the environment. The Prescient Anger of Arundhati Roy 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z

Australian writer Helen Garner, who received an award for nonfiction, almost missed the notification of her win entirely. For some winners, getting the $150,000 Windham-Campbell Prizes was literally unbelievable 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

I wouldn't say there is a sudden popularity of nonfiction, but there is a zeitgesty-ness in the marketability and big business of nonfiction; I think that's really increased in the last two to three years. Drugs, death and documentary ethics: "Amazing Johnathan" director Ben Berman on his meta-movie 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

But I do think that open discussion about the differences in people’s realities, the fleeting nature of accepted truths, the shifting imperfection of fact, makes for better, more artful, more honest nonfiction. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Lucas Mann Talks About 'Class A' 2013-05-16T19:00:06Z

Some writers moving between fiction and nonfiction are like musicians switching instruments. Democracy’s Fierce Defender 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

Last year the Odyssey hosted “The Human Spirit,” adapted from her nonfiction chronicle of a grassroots humanitarian movement during South Africa’s apartheid era. Love, race and a world divided in 'When Stars Align' at Odyssey Theatre 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

Despite this nonfiction reference material, the movie presents a simplistic and hackneyed view of what drives extremism. ‘Profile’ Review: Screen Sharing With Extremists 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

“And that same intent will be reflected in the eclectic fiction and nonfiction books Blue Rider Press will publish.” ArtsBeat: Penguin's New Imprint: Blue Rider Press 2011-05-17T04:01:35Z

The best story that’s told in Mr. Birmingham’s “The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses,’ ” however, may be that of the arrival of a significant young nonfiction writer. Kevin Birmingham’s Book on ‘Ulysses’ and Censorship 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

"I've won quite a few prizes with cachet but no cash, so this is a wonderful combination of the two," Geoff Dyer, one of three nonfiction recipients, told the Los Angeles Times by email. Windham Campbell prizes go to Geoff Dyer, Teju Cole, others 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

There’s nothing exhaustive or documentary about Bausch’s approach; a number of nonfiction books lay out those terrifying days in far greater detail. Review: ‘Before, During, After,’ by Richard Bausch

Even a nonfiction piece made with noble intentions is still fundamentally a piece of entertainment. Andrew Jarecki's 'The Jinx' marks documentaries' big shift in real time 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

This year our Holiday Books Gift Guide includes something new: The best books of the year in fiction and nonfiction. The best books of 2017 - Holiday Books Guide 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

That period may be one of public television’s bottomless wells in the nonfiction genre and an endless source of fascination for history buffs and reenactors. PBS wants its own hit drama, but ‘Mercy Street’ lacks more than just a British accent 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

After several nonfiction books, I happened to be launching my fiction debut with the same publisher. What do mentors and protégés owe each other? 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z

That turned out to be the case this year when a number of books — novels and nonfiction — got turned into prestige films. From page to soundstage: Award-contending films based on books 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z

Besides, the boundaries within literature can be porous, and if someone writes gorgeous work that happens to be called nonfiction, why shouldn’t that be considered literature? The Nobel Prize in Literature Takes This Year Off. Our Critics Don’t. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

Viking will publish "Vacationland," the writer's first book of nonfiction, this fall. John Hodgman will tell the truth in a new book, 'Vacationland' 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

I read a great deal, both fiction and nonfiction. Diane Rehm on stepping away from the mic for her book: ‘I just had to write.’ 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

Then, in 1986, the organization scaled back drastically, to just two awards, for fiction and nonfiction. The Globalization of the National Book Awards 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

For three months, Franklin worked with journalists from the Common Language Project, a University of Washington-affiliated nonprofit which produces nonfiction multimedia stories. An Art Walk stroll through the story of immigration 2010-06-30T21:45:00Z

In a blurb printed on “There Is Too Much to Think About,” Bellow’s friend Philip Roth loyally contends that Bellow was among those rare novelists “who writes nonfiction comparable in strength to their fiction.” Review: Revisiting Saul Bellow’s Words, on Society, Chicago and Other Writers 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

Fisher mined her potboiler life for fiction and nonfiction, most notably in the novel “Postcards From the Edge.” Review | A new biography dishes about Carrie Fisher’s tumultuous, bittersweet life 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

Like the Stein book, a mock memoir that mixes fiction and nonfiction and was written by Stein from Toklas’s point of view, “Nicolae Ceausescu” is something of a rarefied ventriloquist act. | 'The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu': ?Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu,? by Andrei Ujica - Review 2011-09-08T23:07:41Z

As is to be expected of a nonfiction writer of his caliber, Pollan makes the story of the rise and fall and rise of psychedelic drug research gripping and surprising. Michael Pollan Drops Acid — and Comes Back From His Trip Convinced 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

Eccentrics, obsessives and big personalities dominate this week’s nonfiction. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

“It,” in this case, is AFI Docs, the nonfiction film festival that Lumpkin has been overseeing for the past three years. Perspective | At AFI Docs 2017, a new consciousness of ideological diversity 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

This controversial, identity-eschewing artist is the subject of Catherine Lacey’s new novel, “Biography of X,” a sneaky book that purports to be a work of investigative nonfiction written by X’s widow, C.M.. She Never Existed. Catherine Lacey Wrote Her Biography Anyway. 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z

Life is short, as Sasse says, but that’s why we should work hard to read a combination of classic and modern fiction and nonfiction to increase our understanding of the array of human truths. Letters to the Editor 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

Possibly the scariest book I’ve ever read was Richard Preston’s nonfiction thriller “The Hot Zone,” about outbreaks of the Ebola virus and the efforts to identify and contain that sort of hemorrhagic fever. The Book That Terrified Neil Gaiman. And Carmen Maria Machado. And Dan Simmons. 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

Unlike last year’s online-only festival, this year’s will combine virtual and in-person screenings of 77 nonfiction features, shorts and episodic series, a notable number of which excavate buried histories and forgotten icons. AFI Docs shows us where the histories are buried, and why that matters more than ever 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

Fiction, nonfiction, books, film and television, all are currently awash in first person. A taut, gripping inquiry into 'The Affair' 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

Books about a sibling’s mental illness proliferate in many genres — there are novels, such as Mira T. Lee’s family drama “Everything Here Is Beautiful,” and nonfiction books, including Robert Kolker’s medical mystery “Hidden Valley Road.” Review | In ‘The Swank Hotel,’ a family falls apart, and so does the world 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

Agnes fits right in with the thinkers, ascetics, crusaders and seekers who have populated Gordon’s fiction and nonfiction — books about Joan of Arc, Thomas Merton and Jesus. What if We Pursued Vigilante Justice on Reality TV? 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

Engaging nonfiction about sports heroes, movie stars, physicists, L.A. and more » Holiday Books Gift Guide: 170 titles to give and to get 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

I want more writers to test the capacities, strategies and varieties of nonfiction, whatever their subject. Even Margo Jefferson Sometimes Gets Sucked Into a Bad Thriller 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

Despite the occasional runaway hit — “Fahrenheit 9/11,” “An Inconvenient Truth” — nonfiction films still occupy a box office backwater. Documentaries: Where Sundance Goes, Oscars Follow 2013-12-27T23:08:10Z

“That’s the larger lesson of a nonfiction narrative like this one,” she writes: “It continues, beyond a book’s pages.” 5 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

“Bad Land” won the 1996 National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. Jonathan Raban, Adventurous Literary Traveler, Dies at 80 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z

He grew up in Milwaukee, received his BA in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Antioch University. How the bestseller 'The Vegetarian,' translated from Han Kang's original, caused an uproar in South Korea 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

“My net is cast wider” now than in the past, said Lucy Schiller, 29, a recent graduate of the nonfiction writing program at the University of Iowa. Are My Friends Really My Friends? 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z

The older brother from the band Oasis — Noel Gallagher — has probably influenced all my nonfiction. “An emotional Benjamin Buttoning”: The inside secrets of 6 new books that will top your fall reading list 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

In her novels, she builds tremendously detailed fantasy worlds; in her nonfiction, she curates a magpie’s nest of fragments — critical theory, song lyrics, personal anecdotes — into insightful ensembles. The Latest in Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

Throughout, as host Steven Johnson — the best-selling nonfiction writer — travels the world, he draws associations that keep the program surprisingly nimble considering its base genre is scientific history. PBS series explains why Chicago needed a lift 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

Growing up reading Tom Wolfe and Norman Mailer and other titans of new journalism it just seemed natural to apply the techniques of fiction to nonfiction. Colson Whitehead: I had zombie anxiety dreams for years 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z

The novelist and short story writer’s first book of nonfiction is a cool and formidable collection of pieces about music, writers, politics, travel and more. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

From there Wilkerson, now a professor of journalism and director of narrative nonfiction at Boston University, embarked on a journey to tell what she calls "the greatest untold story" of the 20th century. Genealogy class sprouts tale of Great Migration 2011-01-14T23:06:00Z

The stories, which include the original articles that became the best-selling nonfiction books “Into Thin Air” and “The Perfect Storm,” are about so much more than travel. Lessons in travel — and bravura writing — from ‘The Best of Outside: The First 20 Years’ 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

“The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail” was often characterized as nonfiction, though it appeared on the fiction best-seller list in The New York Times. Michael Baigent, Writer Who Sued Over ‘Da Vinci Code,’ Dies at 65 2013-06-23T02:20:48Z

Mr. Alda, a voracious reader of nonfiction, said he did his own research. ArtsBeat: Meryl Streep to Participate in Alan Alda's Marie Curie Play 2011-05-09T19:09:48Z

Winners include Sheri Fink, whose nonfiction book "Five Days at Memorial" has already received a number of prizes, Tin House editor Rob Spillman, and newcomer Saeed Jones for his debut poetry collection "Prelude to Bruise." PEN announces award-winners and shortlists 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

Robinson’s latest book, “The High Sierra: A Love Story,” is unlike any of his previous ones: It’s Robinson’s first major work of nonfiction, and the most personal thing he’s ever published. A Sci-Fi Writer Returns to Earth: ‘The Real Story Is the One Facing Us’ 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z

All this stuff is absolutely thrilling, which would seem routine, usually, in a nonfiction book. Robert Caro Reflects on Robert Moses, L.B.J., and His Own Career in Nonfiction 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

All told, he published more than 65 novels and some 30 short-story collections, as well as nonfiction works. Frederik Pohl, Worldly-Wise Master of Science Fiction, Dies at 93 2013-09-03T16:42:10Z

Even when one image is taken directly from the nonfiction into the fiction, the meaning of it is fundamentally changed. Chekhov’s Beautiful Nonfiction 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

This brand of highly dramatic nonfiction sells, and for good reason. Books of The Times: ‘Killing Kennedy’ by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard 2012-10-10T21:54:31Z

“Something in the Blood” isn’t a biography of the Dublin-born Bram Stoker, author of a dozen novels and several works of nonfiction. ‘Something in the Blood’ offers plenty of speculation about ‘Dracula’ author 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

Realizing he didn’t know much about the man, Winslow began studying the family’s history in order to write a work of nonfiction, but that study didn’t lead far. 4 Writers to Watch This Summer 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

As in her stories, Berlin doesn’t fuss with preamble or elaborate scene setting in her nonfiction; instead, she quietly homes in on elliptical, freighted moments: Review | Two new books bring Lucia Berlin back to life 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

The prize for nonfiction went to Clint Smith’s “How the Word Is Passed,” which examines the way America has memorialized and distorted the legacy of slavery. National Book Critics Circle Names 2021 Award Winners 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

Fiction or nonfiction, poetry or dialogue, inspired or uninspired, for a future book or simply for the sake of writing. Fiction, memoirs, poems spring from 1,000-word challenge 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Stern wrote more than 20 books of fiction and nonfiction, mostly while teaching literature and creative writing at the University of Chicago. Richard G. Stern, a Writers’ Writer, Is Dead at 84 2013-01-25T03:25:06Z

And in nonfiction: “Six Encounters with Lincoln,” a new perspective on the president by the historian Elizabeth Brown Pryor, who sadly died prior to the book’s publication. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

Lessing, who authored more than 50 works fiction, nonfiction and poetry ranging in subject, won the Nobel prize in 2007 and became the eldest recipient at age 88. Nobel Prize-Winning Author Doris Lessing Dead at 94 2013-11-17T15:38:38Z

The movie takes its inspiration from a nonfiction book by former Washington Post Baghdad chief Rajiv Chandrasekaran, "Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone." Bourne again: "Green Zone" a remarkable movie 2010-03-05T06:26:00Z

All were products not just of the team’s philosophical interest in a new kind of nonfiction cinema, but old-fashioned know-how. Perspective | D.A. Pennebaker revolutionized film while living in a New York that revolutionized culture 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Slate’s collection of nonfiction vignettes — sprinkled with magical realism — explore the actor-comedian’s emotions and world view, plus death, honeysuckle, rabbits and electromagnetic energy fields. The 18 books to read this fall - The Washington Post 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

In New York last month, she talked about “Concrete Night” and the competing tugs of fiction and nonfiction. Shhh, Don't Tell Other Directors: Working With Kids Is Easy 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

On the New York Times best-seller list for paperback nonfiction last Sunday, “Heaven Is for Real” was No. 1. Boy?s Tale of Heaven Is Publishing Phenomenon 2011-03-11T12:25:34Z

RK It’s something I think about a lot myself: what is it fiction does that nonfiction and memoir don’t do? Rachel Kushner meets Nicola Sturgeon: ‘I'm so glad I'm a novelist and not a politician’ 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z

Simon & Schuster and Author Solutions Inc. on Tuesday announced the creation of Archway Publishing, which will focus on self-published fiction, nonfiction, business and children's books. Simon & Schuster helps launch self-publisher 2012-11-27T16:06:08Z

In the nonfiction category, Stephen Greenblatt won for "The Swerve," a "rumination on the pleasure of knowledge and on the agony of its loss," the judges' citation said. 'Salvage the Bones' a National Book Award winner 2011-11-17T18:03:21Z

Although the tension it develops suggests a nonfiction cliffhanger, the most memorable episode is a heated religious discussion dominated by the patient's mother. Seattle Jewish Film Festival prepares to celebrate its Sweet 16 2011-03-10T21:20:05Z

“Junk,” which is more freely imagined, not stemming from one dominant nonfiction source, seems by contrast populated with actual business people. Seduced by Ayad Akhtar's 'Junk,' the new play that picks apart the Wall Street playbook 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Dyer insouciantly mixes fiction and nonfiction, smuggling invented bits into the seams of his reported essays and stitching long threads of transparently autobiographical material into his novels. Review: ‘White Sands’ Asks Why We Visit the Places We Do 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

Bourdain’s show isn’t breaking news, but it offers some hope that the channel can “expand” its nonfiction TV without getting dumb. Two Cheers for CNN 2013-04-24T16:40:55Z

The extraordinary work of investigative journalists and nonfiction writers continues to pile up about Donald Trump. Review | In the era of countless Trump exposés, do we really need a new ‘Primary Colors’? 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

So it’s no surprise to see the fiction list stuffed with repeats and the nonfiction list filled, once again, with political titles. Around the World With Books: A Peek at Global Best-Seller Lists 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

“People weren’t going to the website for long-form nonfiction,” he said. The Latest Entry in the True-Crime Serial Market: Copcasts 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z

Times bestseller in nonfiction is “Leonardo da Vinci” by Walter Isaacson. Books: An editor with a vision, the late Denis Johnson and more book news 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z

What writers are especially good on class issues, in fiction or nonfiction? Pankaj Mishra Says Faulkner’s Work Is ‘Atrociously Written,’ and Great 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

It's also a rare recent documentary that avoids every modern nonfiction cliché. The most nightmarish holiday commute ever 2011-09-27T16:28:00Z

Rather, they’re the TV equivalent of literary nonfiction, employing the forms and methods of fiction to tell a deeply reported true story. David Simon of ‘The Wire’ finds drama in public housing. But will the public tune in? 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

The news confirms intense fan speculation over several days that Flatiron would publish a nonfiction title about a pop culture phenomenon this summer. K-Pop Stars BTS Will Release a Book Telling Their Own Story in July 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

Fiction writers generally get a bigger share of profits than do writers of nonfiction, since the novelists actually dream up their characters. Another Harry Potter Landmark: At $68 Million, the Most Expensive Broadway Nonmusical Play Ever 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z

Steve Sheinkin's "Bomb: The Race to Build - and Steal - the World's Most Dangerous Weapon" was named the best nonfiction book and the "most distinguished informational" book. Applegate wins Newbery; Klassen takes Caldecott 2013-01-28T17:23:17Z

Ms. Goldsmith was a founding editor of New York magazine, a contributor to publications including Vanity Fair and the New Yorker and the author of four nonfiction books. Barbara Goldsmith, best-selling chronicler of the (unhappily) rich and famous, dies at 85 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

I also read lots of nonfiction that will help me bring a scene to life. Chris Bohjalian Can Read for Hours in the Bath 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

Hall, who also wrote nonfiction and children’s books, wedded a candid, often droll style with a keenly humane sensitivity that made him a defining voice in American poetry. Donald Hall in The New Yorker 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

This book is her literary nonfiction debut, and it’s clear that she has talent to burn. An Arsonist and His Femme Fatale Partner Fuel ‘American Fire’ 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

He also reads widely in a variety of nonfiction subjects, especially history and politics. America's 'detainee 001' ? the persecution of John Walker Lindh 2011-07-10T16:08:00Z

What to read before you go; Pearl's latest suggests fiction and nonfiction books for 120 destinations. 27 beautiful books to grace your coffee table ? or someone else's 2010-12-18T01:33:05Z

In 1999, the Modern Library ranked “The Journalist and the Murderer” No. 97 on its list of the 100 best nonfiction releases of the 20th century. Janet Malcolm, provocative author-journalist, dies at 86 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

The review schedule at The Times meant that I was often hopping between fiction and nonfiction, and from one subject to the next. Michiko Kakutani: By the Book 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

Mitchell, Malcolm wrote, was prone to “radical departures from factuality,” reframing nonfiction as “some kind of hybrid, as yet to be named.” (Re-)defining nonfiction, again 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

The former professional dominatrix now teaches nonfiction at Iowa. Puberty, Slut-Shaming and Cuddle Parties in Melissa Febos’s ‘Girlhood’ 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

"They come at it straight up — 'I change stuff in my nonfiction, any documentary filmmaker changes something.' You're granted leeway for a larger truth." As 'True Story' weaves a web of ambiguity, whom can we believe? 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

Besides appearing in movies, TV series and onstage, you have written fiction and nonfiction, recorded a jazz album, and for a year you wrote an advice column for The Guardian. Molly Ringwald Has Advice to Give and a Role to Match 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

So what if it’s nonfiction and Russell excels only at editing fiction writers? Review: Jay McInerney’s ‘Bright, Precious Days’ 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

“Who was I to spit in the publishers’ punch bowl at the annual industry party?” she recounts in “Words Are My Matter,” a collection of nonfiction appearing this fall from Small Beer Press. Ursula Le Guin Has Earned a Rare Honor. Just Don’t Call Her a Sci-Fi Writer. 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z

Thomas Mallon has written 10 novels, including “Landfall,” “Finale” and “Watergate,” as well as several works of nonfiction and essays. Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

If at a few moments I wished I were reading a short nonfiction history of the firm instead, well, those moments were few. The Story of the Lehman Brothers, from Bavaria to Alabama, and From the Heights to the Crash 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z

A journalist, Gardner Smith published four novels and one work of nonfiction. “How Does It Feel To Be a White Man?”: William Gardner Smith’s Exile in Paris 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z

This book, Didion’s first work of nonfiction, was published in 1968, when she was in her 30s; and Keaton’s portrait of her is utterly convincing. Eight Audiobook Classics Written, and Narrated, by Women 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

Is your approach to writing the comic different than your approach to your nonfiction work? Ta-Nehisi Coates on Creating Black Superheroes 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

It is the first acquisition for Flatiron Books, a new nonfiction imprint of Macmillan. New Book From Oprah Winfrey Is ‘What I Know for Sure’ 2014-03-12T18:05:55Z

At 13, I read almost nothing but S.F. and popular nonfiction explaining science; by 17 I was reading, primarily, poetry.” The Education Issue: Stephen Burt, Poetry’s Cross-Dressing Kingmaker 2012-09-16T00:17:27Z

Shroder is the author of the nonfiction bestseller “Old Souls” and the recently published “The Most Famous Writer Who Ever Lived: A True Story of My Family.” This jewel-like paradise in the Andes is one of Colombia’s hottest tourist destinations 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

“The Armies of the Night” was famous in its time for being a “nonfiction novel”—its portentous subtitle is “History as a Novel; the Novel as History.” The Strange Prophecies in Norman Mailer’s “The Armies of the Night” 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

He found inspiration and encouragement from a creative nonfiction class with the novelist Mat Johnson. What Bryan Washington Is Cooking 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z

Adult nonfiction experienced a massive drop in sales in March as the pandemic took hold in the United States. What the country is reading during the pandemic: Dystopias, social justice and steamy romance 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z

Long a quietly aggressive race, the documentary competition has been growing more rambunctious as nonfiction film has evaporated from theaters. Documentaries Jostle Against Oscar Obscurity 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

His nonfiction books include "Life on the Mississippi," "Roughing It," "A Tramp Abroad" and heaps of newspaper articles, opinion pieces and public lectures. Library of Congress presents 'Mark Twain's America' 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

When I work with other narrative nonfiction writers, or just writers in general who are thinking about memoir, write it first before trying to get it published maybe, because it took me so many years. "My dad had a secret rage problem that only we could see": Author Erin Hosier on "Don't Let Me Down" 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z

The novelist and nonfiction polymath Geoff Dyer, born in 1958, said that in books, comics and TV shows, “it seemed the Second World War was being replayed fictitiously throughout my childhood.” ArtsBeat: A Great War Reading List at PEN World Voices Festival 2014-05-02T18:57:31Z

The award is given annually to a writer of nonfiction "who has produced an excellent and substantial body of work in the general area of true crime, suspense, or narrative nonfiction." Lit Life: Jess Walter is a busy man; Ann Rule wins a Thriller 2012-05-18T19:40:04Z

In midlife he produced two fine novels, “At Play in the Fields of the Lord” and “Far Tortuga,” and a glorious spate of nonfiction about the natural world. A Writer’s Controversial Past That Will Not Die 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

I felt frustrated with the edits I made on my nonfiction book proposal. Getting engaged in this otherwise hellish year: An act of faith in a shared future 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z

Though the nonfiction list is still packed with familiar titles — like “Educated” and “Bad Blood” — there’s quite a bit of movement on it, with four new titles this week. When Real-Life Murder Plays Out in Fiction 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

But what the nonfiction camera creates whenever it films anybody, that’s something I really want to explore, and I want to explore it in other places and areas. New York Film Festival: A 'Genius' Grant Winner and His Unblinking Camera 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

Fiction can often tell more truths than nonfiction. Kyle Pruett on Fatherhood 2012-07-23T11:00:00Z

If, on the other hand, you’re a discerning reader who likes your nonfiction, well, nonfiction, you’ll soon cast aside her latest sensationalist work. Four Books About the C.I.A.’s Exploits and Secrets 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

Gay: Well, I definitely see both my fiction and my nonfiction coming from the same place. Leslie Jamison and Roxane Gay: “Men are crowned as the gold standard of the genre. It’s gonna change” 2014-04-24T23:00:00Z

In 2015, Martin Edwards brought out “The Golden Age of Murder,” a history of Britain’s Detection Club that went on to sweep nearly all of crime writing’s nonfiction awards. How many of the top 100 crimes novels of the early 20th century have you read? 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z

After a week away, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” by Michael Wolff returns to the top of our bestseller list in nonfiction. Books newsletter: Tayari Jones, Jesse Ball, Lucie Brock-Broido and more in books 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z

His book of the same title spent 21 weeks on the New York Times nonfiction best-seller list, quickly soaring to No. 1. Humans of New York Goes Global 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

The book will be the lead title from Ms. Winfrey’s new imprint, which will include several nonfiction titles a year. Oprah Winfrey to Release Memoir in 2017 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

Through her moonlighting as Duchess, the author becomes more productive at her day job as a “nonfiction writer.” Review | In ‘Becoming Duchess Goldblatt,’ a Twitter celebrity is ready for her close-up — but her creator remains a mystery 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

In hardcover, the book was not identified as a novel on the cover, leading some readers to believe that it was a nonfiction study about music. 2011 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters, Drama and Music 2011-04-22T17:12:05Z

He also began to produce made-up nonfiction for men’s adventure magazines. Review | Lawrence Block and P.G. Wodehouse: How two prolific writers found their voices 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

Along with performing, Johnson writes nonfiction books, love poems and songs. 'Go-to' L.A. lawyer says Hollywood studios are shortchanging his clients 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

Ibram X. Kendi’s “Stamped From the Beginning” is a history of American racism that won the National Book Award for nonfiction last fall. Finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Awards 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

At a very young age I discovered that you could earn respect by flicking through a nonfiction book and trotting out a few facts and figures. What Moves Nina Stibbe Most in a Book? ‘Dogs’ 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

More than 500 authors — poets and prizewinners and short-story writers and authors of nonfiction books and international journalists and children's book authors and bestsellers — are participating in the book festival. Spring 2016 books preview: Literary events happening around L.A. 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

Like so much of the best nonfiction, “The China Collectors” is as entertaining as it is eye-opening. How Asian art came to America: ‘The China Collectors’ 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

Several of the titles are far from straightforward novels, containing elements of memoir and historical nonfiction, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, the chair of the judges, said at the news conference. French Authors Lead International Booker Prize Shortlist 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

It’s time to move this book to a higher shelf, to that of nonfiction that is literature. ‘With the Old Breed,’ an Intimate Look at Terror in World War II 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

And he said, “If your book sells a million copies, it’ll be a huge nonfiction success. If a TV show has a million viewers, it’s canceled today.” ‘The Comey Rule’: Why Watching Jeff Daniels Ruined James Comey’s Day 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z

The three-part anthology series offers 13 short fiction and nonfiction films that each set their own subject, style and tone. New this week: ‘Black Widow, Jakob Dylan and ‘Gossip Girl’ 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z

You begin to wonder if, in his relative old age — Mr. Theroux is 74 — this inimitably caustic novelist and nonfiction writer is mellowing. Review: In ‘Deep South,’ Paul Theroux Takes an Eye-Opening Road Trip 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

Some readers will be irked by the focus on God in historical nonfiction; others will be soothed by it. A Graphic Nonfiction Account of Hitler’s Would-Be Assassin 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

Essays, aphorisms and other eclectic nonfiction from one of the 20th century’s great thinkers and prose stylists. New & Noteworthy, From Missing Dad to Quitting God 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

Here, in over 400 pages, are 32 short stories, 20 poems, a suite of photographs and a dozen works of nonfiction. Review | Something to celebrate: Four literary gems that have survived the vagaries of publishing 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

Abrams’ other books include the nonfiction releases “Our Time Is Now” and “Minority Leader.” 3 romance novels by Stacey Abrams to be reissued 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z

Jen discussed how China has influenced her work, what she has gotten out of nonfiction writing and why it’s important, even in fiction, to get the facts straight. How Covid Got Gish Jen Thinking About China 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z

We were at a glamorous dinner thrown by Headline Books, which was then – in 2005 – publishing my nonfiction book Jane Austen’s Guide to Romance and Ms Bacall’s autobiography, By Myself and Then Some. The day Lauren Bacall admired my tights 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

Maybe people have an appetite for nonfiction right now, just for some sort of grounding in reality.” Steve Jobs Biography and Other Hot Titles Bookstore Lures 2011-12-12T23:48:19Z

In a recent interview via e-mail, Mr. Lanchester discussed fiction and nonfiction, Dickens and Tolstoy, immigration, the changing behavior of the English, and more. ArtsBeat: Q. & A.: John Lanchester on 'Capital' 2012-06-13T16:28:11Z

These 25 essential books about American fighters include novels and nonfiction, some stories absurd, others painful. 25 essential books for Memorial Day 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

But it was singer-songwriter Paul Simon who captured the media spotlight with the premiere of documentary "Under African Skies," and another nonfiction film "Searching for Sugar Man" that wowed crowds here. Finding Paul Simon, seeking "Sugar Man" at Sundance 2012-01-26T23:25:05Z

Annoyingly, for a part-time dabbler, he is one the finest writers of nonfiction in English. Richard Lloyd Parry: By the Book 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

Mr. Donleavy wrote more than a dozen novels, as well as plays and nonfiction books. J.P. Donleavy, Acclaimed Author of ‘The Ginger Man,’ Dies at 91 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

It may have been at this point that Haley’s “nonfiction” book became a novel, though both author and publisher insisted that it was unadulterated truth. Alex Haley Taught America About Race — and a Young Man How to Write 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

Luckily, there’s still plenty to watch this weekend, particularly if you like nonfiction programing. What to Watch This Weekend: ‘Last Chance U’ and ‘Rolling Papers’ 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

Delia Owens’s “Where the Crawdads Sing” is once again the top-selling novel, as it has been for most of the year, and Tara Westover’s memoir, “Educated,” remains ensconced at No. 1 on the nonfiction list. What Were People Reading in the Summer of ’69? 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

It’s an extraordinary document, one that strikes me as an instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far. Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ Is an ‘Instant American Classic’ About Our Abiding Sin 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

In nonfiction, we recommend a contemplative and genial self-help book about time management, as well as two books probing current affairs: one about QAnon, the other about the political era spawned by 9/11. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

Gleick was a nominee in nonfiction for "The Information," a review of how information has been shared through the centuries and its singular importance in modern times. Eugenides, Lethem among critics' awards nominees 2012-01-22T16:46:04Z

Quinones' latest book of narrative nonfiction is "Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic." 'A Narco History' explores Mexico's drug violence — and U.S. culpability 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Her nonfiction classics like “Operating Instructions” and “Bird by Bird” have become handbooks for parents and writers whose lives lean toward the joyously messy. Anne Lamott: “The grace of this world is hilariously huge” 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z

All of Fitzcarraldo’s novels have the same simple cover, with the title and the author’s name in white type on a blue background; its nonfiction titles have white covers, with the text in blue. How a Tiny British Publisher Became the Home of Nobel Laureates 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

"Lost in Shangri-La" is the most thrilling book, fiction or nonfiction, that I have read since I can't remember when. Book review: 'Lost in Shangri-La': a plane crash and a daring rescue attempt 2011-04-27T21:58:04Z

Lelyveld, a former executive editor of The New York Times, won a general nonfiction Pulitzer for "Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White" in 1986. APNewsBreak: Calif. event for Gandhi book canceled 2011-04-01T23:51:39Z

Akashic has published urban fiction before but tends to focus more on literary fiction and political nonfiction. Prodigy’s ‘H.N.I.C.,’ Street Lit From Infamous Books 2013-05-31T21:16:57Z

Earlier this week, the National Book Foundation released longlists of 10 in young people's literature, poetry and nonfiction. Colson Whitehead on fiction longlist for National Book Award 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

The lists were announced Wednesday by the National Book Foundation, which presents the awards and will reveal nominees for poetry, nonfiction and fiction later in the week. First two longlists announced for National Book Awards 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

Tucked into the back of the community center’s second floor, the bookstore’s airy, high-ceilinged home carries a diverse selection, including classic novels like James Baldwin’s “Giovanni’s Room” and contemporary nonfiction by Sarah Schulman. At a Gay-Specific Bookstore, Just Books on a Shelf Won’t Do 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

Back then Rushdie wrote nonfiction for editors, not for foundations and colleges. In ‘Languages of Truth,’ Salman Rushdie Defends the Extraordinary 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z

Some prolific nonfiction writers slowly grow bleary; you sense them, in their later books, going through the motions, rounding off corners. A Sweeping New History Looks Back at 100 Years of Black Filmmaking 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

Lin, the provocateur, produces his first book-length work of nonfiction, an exploration of psychedelic drugs and the realizations they opened up for him. New & Noteworthy 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

“For us, the killer idea was taking the world’s best narrative nonfiction journalism and empowering the journalists to transfer those stories to audio,” Grigoriadis said. Surrounded by Big Tech, Small Podcast Shops Swim With Sharks 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

The awards, which cover technical categories and others left out of the Primetime Emmy Awards, like guest acting and nonfiction honors, were handed out Saturday and Sunday in a two-night ceremony in Los Angeles. ‘Game of Thrones,’ of Course, Rules as First Emmys Are Handed Out 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

“If you read her nonfiction, it becomes clear: She is someone who cares about people and justice, and the world we live in,” Robin Desser, Roy’s editor at Knopf, wrote in an email. After a 20-Year Hiatus, the Booker Prize-Winning Novelist Arundhati Roy Returns to Fiction 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

As ever, Mr. Palin could not predict his future acting plans; he said his next creative endeavor is a nonfiction book he is writing about the H.M.S. Nobody Expects Michael Palin: A Comic Actor in a Dramatic Role 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z

"To be that good in fiction, nonfiction and poetry is really, really remarkable." Acclaimed writer Evan S. Connell has died at 88 2013-01-10T20:49:19Z

In 2015 there has been a spate of nonfiction films that have featured bizarre characters and unusual subjects. 2015’s wild and wonderful documentaries: These true stories are infinitely weirder than fiction 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

A majority of the recent or upcoming books about the topic, though, are nonfiction works that take a prescriptive approach to memory loss. Total Recall: A Reader’s Guide to Memory Gain 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z

Last fall, in a highly unusual deal, Audible prevailed in an auction against several major publishing houses for rights to a new nonfiction book by Ada Calhoun, author of “St. Marks Is Dead.” Want Michael Lewis’s Next Book? You’ll Have to Listen to It. 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z

A film or TV piece, even a nonfiction one made with the best of intentions, ‎is still fundamentally a piece of entertainment. With 'The Jinx,' a long yet murky tradition of documentary activism 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

But before that, I’d been doing a lot of creative nonfiction. Max Joseph on Catfish and We Are Your Friends 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Packer is both, and he’s written something close to a nonfiction masterpiece. Books of The Times: ‘The Unwinding,’ by George Packer 2013-05-28T21:18:55Z

Trust Roth to trust derision: A magnificently sardonic 1969 letter to Diana Trilling, never sent, appears in Roth’s nonfiction “Reading Myself and Others.” Appreciation: Philip Roth 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

He published a score of books: novels, short stories, poetry, nonfiction and an autobiography. Richard Adams, Author of ‘Watership Down,’ Dies at 96 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

Then, in 1967, Imamura took the step into nonfiction with his first and best-known documentary, “A Man Vanishes,” which will play throughout the retrospective. Shohei Imamura’s Documentaries at Anthology Film Archives 2012-11-09T23:03:37Z

The Nobel committee rarely chooses nonfiction writers for the literature prize. Svetlana Alexievich wins Nobel Prize in literature 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

“HOMECOMING” also earned nominations for outstanding production design for a variety special and outstanding costumes for variety, nonfiction or reality programming. Beyoncé’s music director on Emmy nod : ‘It feels good’ 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

She recently completed a work of nonfiction about her mother. I Would Have Driven Her Anywhere 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

The program at the Public Theater described it as “nonfiction.” Critic?s Notebook: Defending ?This American Life? and Its Mike Daisey Retraction 2012-03-18T22:10:44Z

On Friday at 7 p.m. the actor Nick Offerman will read from his debut book, “Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man’s Fundamentals for Delicious Living,” and chat with the nonfiction writer Sarah Vowell. Spare Times for Sept. 12-18 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

ABRAHAM: It’s great for the field that there are more outlets than ever that recognize the value and appeal of nonfiction; it’s created so many more opportunities for the documentary community. HBO Documentary Has Competition. These Women Don’t Seem Worried. 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z

His best nonfiction works are “Under the Mountain Wall,” “The Tree Where Man Was Born” and especially “The Snow Leopard,” which appeared in 1978. A Writer’s Controversial Past That Will Not Die 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

He’s changed my view of even very mundane spaces, and it’s not too dramatic to say that he often creates the same effect with his nonfiction as J.G. How to be a better burglar: Creeping around in buildings with Geoff Manaugh and Jeff VanderMeer 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z

Winner of the National Book Award for nonfiction. Notable nonfiction books in 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

The real cougar in the bathroom is barely mentioned, though the irony of a political system where the line between fiction and nonfiction has been effaced to the point of meaninglessness is felt throughout. Review | Chuck Klosterman tries to make sense of our absurd reality in ‘Raised in Captivity’ 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

Is it something you've considered writing about in nonfiction or memoir form? ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Shani Boianjiu on Women Soldiers in Israel 2012-09-26T16:00:17Z

Fernyhough is also an academic psychologist, and last year published a nonfiction book, Pieces of Light, about memory and identity. A Box of Birds by Charles Fernyhough – review 2013-05-10T14:00:02Z

She has written a work of popular nonfiction that would stand on its own as literature with or without the recipes and domestic survival tips. “Dinner: A Love Story” 2012-07-26T16:25:00Z

Accompanying this discussion is a close-up of a Lebanese cedar, a non sequitur that works to highlight the gaps and the absences that define documentation and nonfiction. Teju Cole uses his camera and his writing to pry open the cities he visits in 'Blind Spot' 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

She writes nonfiction as an artist, she insists, not as a historian or academic. A New Testament to the Fury and Beauty of Activism During the AIDS Crisis 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z

Brad Meltzer, who wrote “The Fifth Assassin” and two nonfiction books about children, says he doesn’t mind if parents talk about their children’s passions. This Life: Time for a Truce in the Bragging Wars 2013-02-01T22:06:28Z

As a kid, I loved nonfiction about dinosaurs and space, and fiction about time travel: H. G. Wells, Ray Bradbury and Madeleine L’Engle. Jess Walter Doesn’t Have a Lot of Patience for Memoirs 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

I love that he is asking difficult questions, forcing conversation about the limits of truth in nonfiction. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Lucas Mann Talks About 'Class A' 2013-05-16T19:00:06Z

This collection of her fiction and nonfiction mixes her most controversial writing with autobiography, like “My Suicide,” an essay discovered after her death in 2005. New & Noteworthy 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

“Strangers constantly ask about it,” Michael Hughes, a communications associate at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, said of his iPad, which he uses to read a mix of novels and nonfiction. Noticed: E-Books Make Readers Less Isolated 2010-08-20T20:10:00Z

In researching her nonfiction debut, “Three Women,” Taddeo spent eight years getting to know her eponymous subjects. Battle of the Sexes? For This Voracious Heroine, It’s All-Out War. 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

In an earlier nonfiction book, “Lost in the Meritocracy,” he described his turbulent love-hate relationship with the showily patrician types he met at Princeton. Books of The Times: Walter Kirn’s Memoir About Befriending a Fraud 2014-03-17T21:29:53Z

Like Norman Mailer, who created a character named “Mailer” in his nonfiction, which he could observe from his own authorial distance, Plimpton carefully calibrated the gap between himself as participant and himself as writer. “Plimpton!” doc tells tale of literary heavyweight 2013-05-28T20:05:00Z

If you are interested in his nonfiction writings, I would urge you to pick up his “Collected Essays,” edited by Toni Morrison, or “The Price of the Ticket.” Eddie Glaude Jr., an Expert on James Baldwin, Reveals His Favorite Baldwin Book 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

Last week, it was named to the National Book Awards longlist for nonfiction. 17 New Books to Watch For in October 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

As of early Tuesday afternoon, hours prior to the nonfiction program’s debut, the link in question was not yet live. A&E’s “Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath”: Your antidote to seasonal belief disorder 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

She became an acclaimed novelist, though it was for her nonfiction polemic, “Patriarchal Attitudes: Women in Society,” that she is best known. Kate Figes, Feminist Author on Family Life, Dies at 62 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

The project was nominated for best documentary or nonfiction series. Hahn, Thede, other nominees react to Emmy announcement 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z

Originally, I wanted to write a nonfiction book about my specific experiences as a resident. Should doctors withhold bad news? 2012-06-07T15:20:00Z

They mix one woman’s story with those of her extended Chinese immigrant family, blending nonfiction and fiction, legend and oral storytelling, history and imagination. Viet Thanh Nguyen's Great American Novels: 'The Woman Warrior' and 'China Men' 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

It is fiction, nonfiction and poetry, and that matters a lot to me, and was an idea that was sort of a part of the DNA of this book from very early on. "#MeToo was our rehearsal space": An interview with Shelly Oria 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z

In both fiction and nonfiction, Nicholson Baker distills the minutiae of daily life into highly original art. Nicholson Baker's 'The Way the World Works': on Wikipedia and weddings 2012-08-01T19:59:04Z

Hayes, a fast-paced, politically minded poet, slows down appealingly in this hybrid nonfiction tribute to a poetic forebear and other father figures. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Yet it's the thread of Didion's personal story within her cultural criticism and nonfiction books that has resonated most deeply with her readers. The best part of the new Joan Didion bio 'The Last Love Song'? Joan Didion 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

Over the next three days, 10 finalists will be announced for each of the remaining three competitive categories — poetry, nonfiction and fiction. First Long-List Announced for Book Awards 2013-09-16T13:55:18Z

I don’t avoid reading any books while I’m working on my own, but I tend to read a lot of nonfiction that’s relevant to my projects. Tess Gerritsen Still Prefers to Read Books the Old-Fashioned Way, on Paper 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z

I read more nonfiction now, especially about the history of medicine. How the Bible Divided, and United, Allan Gurganus and His Father 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

An unsuspecting reader who picks up this book expecting a buttoned-down, blue-blazered examination of our nuclear present, a Tom Clancy kind of nonfiction volume, is in for an intellectual drag race. Books of The Times: Thinking the Unthinkable Again in a New Nuclear Age 2011-03-01T16:45:09Z

“We knew they would have to leave a lot of the story out,” he said, telling them that nonfiction series were the wave of the future. “Wild Wild Country”: How 3 sets of brothers scored an unexpected Netflix Emmy contender 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

They are now the closest thing in the medium of video games to nonfiction storytelling. Critic’s Notebook: Even NCAA College Football 14 Is Changing 2013-07-08T21:42:59Z

I wrote those things down and published them in a nonfiction book, “Underground.” The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

After the war he worked briefly in banking, then became an editor and executive for a number of London publishing houses, editing both fiction and nonfiction while writing his own books. Raleigh Trevelyan, Chronicler of a Notable Family, Dies at 91 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z

He directed a superb nonfiction feature, “City of Ghosts,” about an improvised news organization trying, in 2014, to document atrocities inflicted by Islamic State foot soldiers on the Syrian city of Raqqa. ‘A Private War’ Review: Dateline Truth, Somewhere in Hell 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

Two books debuting on our bestseller lists this week are Robert Crais’ “The Wanted” at No. 3 on our fiction list and Mary Beard’s “Women and Power” at No. 4 in nonfiction. Books: An editor with a vision, the late Denis Johnson and more book news 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z

"This may be too deep a subject for an email exchange on the art of nonfiction," she replies, when Roiphe asks her if having a child ever conflicted with her writing. Forty-One False Starts by Janet Malcolm – review 2013-07-28T07:00:00Z

Lenney is the author of "The Object Parade" and "Bigger Than Life: A Murder, a Memoir" and is the creative nonfiction editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books. In 'A Mother's Reckoning,' Sue Klebold tries to make sense of her son and Columbine 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

Yet “The Aleppo Codex,” Matti Friedman’s account of his attempts to learn the history of one of the world’s most precious books, sports all of these assets, and it’s nonfiction. ?People Who Eat Darkness?: The disappearing blonde 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z

Although a vocal advocate for the nonfiction avant-garde, Wilson praised Oppenheimer for matching a creative vision to a subject of geopolitical significance. ‘The Look of Silence’ changes the perspective on Indonesian genocide 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

Most of the nonfiction I remember from my childhood features poorly reproduced archival photographs crammed against dreary typefaces. Help: My Child Doesn’t Know Another President Besides the Current One 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z

The angst among parents, teachers and librarians has been met by a steady stream of sports and historical nonfiction, potty humor, bloodthirsty vampires and action-packed graphic novels, fantasy and sleuthing. Boys trail girls in reading; can fart jokes help? 2010-07-20T22:22:00Z

In this enormously entertaining scripted nonfiction show, Dana Schwartz delivers deep dives into how members of the nobility lived and died throughout history. 5 Podcasts About the Royal Family 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z

Abbott says her book is a "work of nonfiction, with no invented dialogue." Karen Abott's history of four Civil War women who spied or lied 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

This week, we at the Book Review are particularly excited about three new works of fiction, five excellent new nonfiction books and . . . a play. 9 Great Books to Start Off September 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Fiction, nonfiction and then sections for the various subjects I’ve written about. Adam Hochschild Says Books Can Change the World. He Has Proof. 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

As a devoted audiobook listener of literary fiction, I am so disappointed that your audiobook reviews continue to be about nonfiction titles. Audiobooks, Translations, and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

Keith’s most recent book is a novel set in Russia, called “A Terrible Country”; Masha’s most recent book is also about Russia, a work of nonfiction called “The Future Is History.” Masha and Keith Gessen on Writing About Russia 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z

“The Classical Style” received the National Book Award for nonfiction in 1972. Charles Rosen, Pianist, Polymath and Author, Dies at 85 2012-12-11T01:24:22Z

But nonfiction in 2015 was rich and wide, and asked a huge range of questions. 2015 was a banner year for nonfiction — here are 10 books you don’t want to miss 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

On the page, she is consistently self-referential yet never myopic, occupying the marginal space between fiction and nonfiction with panache. Review | The resurgence of Eve Babitz continues with ‘I Used to Be Charming’ 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

It’s nonfiction, and people can make fun of the way you think or say, oh that was trivial.” Amy Tan, the Reluctant Memoirist 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

There’s always a mix of fiction and nonfiction, as each night I don’t know what might strike my bedtime fancy. James Rollins: By the Book 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

She graduated from Marymount of Manhattan College and received a Master of Fine Arts in creative nonfiction from Sarah Lawrence College. Erica Cardwell, Zhaleh Afshar 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z

Do they think the practice of creative writing — poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction — is in jeopardy? Are we witnessing the death of the writer? Facing the AI crossroads in class and on the page 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z

The cultural ubiquity of TV was a theme of the night, and so was the tension between the night’s crowd of stars and winners and the TV entertainer who’s dominated the year’s nonfiction programming. Review: Emmy Awards Showcase TV’s Cultural Dominance and Trump Jokes 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

That memoir is a reminder that Mr. Harrison’s nonfiction, to some of us at any rate, is nearly as valuable as his fiction. An Appraisal: Taking Big Bites of Jim Harrison’s Voracious Life 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

The Kirkus Prize finalists were announced Tuesday, with six titles each in three categories — fiction, nonfiction and young readers literature. Kirkus announces its finalist lineup, and book prize season is looking good 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

I like to read nonfiction, or “ideas” books in the morning — Charles Duhigg’s “The Power of Habit,” things like that. By the Book: Reese Witherspoon 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

Boo's nonfiction book, set in a Mumbai slum, also is a story of a boy and his harsh and illuminating education in the consequences of crime or perceived crime. Erdrich wins National Book Award for fiction 2012-11-15T04:18:08Z

The selections are about 80 percent fiction; the rest are memoirs, narrative nonfiction, some true-crime. Review | What do women want? One company is betting it comes between two covers. 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

I think some people are afraid that if you take on this role, whether it’s as a nonfiction writer or as a “cultural ambassador” of some kind, that it will stick. How Covid Got Gish Jen Thinking About China 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z

After releasing long-lists of 10 last month in fiction and four other competitive categories — nonfiction, poetry, translation and young people’s literature — awards judges narrowed each list to five Tuesday. Groff, Doerr are among National Book Award finalists 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

The series was created by "Nikita" executive producer Craig Silverstein and is based on the nonfiction book "Washington's Spies" by Alexander Rose. Revolutionary War drama 'Turn' gets second season on AMC 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

He shared an Emmy nomination with the other producers for outstanding documentary or nonfiction special. Douglas McGrath, Playwright, Filmmaker and Actor, Dies at 64 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

The biggest nonfiction genre is biography and autobiography. Who buys books? 40-year-old women and others 2010-09-03T20:05:00Z

Two new books offer looks at these writers’ nonfiction prose — essays, travel writing, book reviews, etc. From Nabokov and Lawrence, Giants of 20th-Century Fiction, New Volumes of Nonfiction 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z

The winner — along with the winners in the fiction, nonfiction, biography, autobiography and poetry categories, will be announced Thursday at a ceremony open to the public at the New School in New York. Review | ‘You Play the Girl,’ by Carina Chocano, up for big book award this week 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

The winners in the six literary categories — fiction, nonfiction, autobiography, biography, criticism and poetry — will be announced March 17 at the New School in New York. Ta-Nehisi Coates is among finalists for National Book Critics Circle Awards 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

“Essays One” is her first collection of nonfiction, with pieces dating to the 1970s, mainly concerning writing and writers. Lydia Davis Loved Learning the Word ‘Look.’ These Essays Show Why. 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

Only its deftly manipulative style keeps “Watergate” from being mistaken for nonfiction. Review: ‘Finale’ by Thomas Mallon Moves Past ‘Watergate’ and Into the Reagan Era 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

The Power of Bare Facts In terms of narrative scope and harrowing drama, no novel has yet to match “The Looming Tower,” Lawrence Wright’s nonfiction account of the events that led to 9/11. The 9/11 Decade: Outdone by Reality 2011-09-01T16:55:45Z

Not so incidentally, if ever a nonfiction author has used the techniques of fiction any better to recount a real-life narrative, it is difficult to imagine who that author would be. 'The Tiger': John Vaillant's mesmerizing tale of a man-eating tiger, vengeance and survival 2010-08-25T23:16:00Z

As I’ve said, the best parts of David Foster Wallace’s fiction are nonfiction. Mary Karr on the “loser, outsider weirdos” of memoir and skipping the David Foster Wallace movie: “The whole St. David thing … it’s a little hard to take” 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

Donald Barthelme, the great postmodern fiction writer, was also a hero of experimental nonfiction. Have personal essays gotten too personal? 2013-03-17T17:00:00Z

Feted with raves for “Runner Mack,” Beckham had a varied career, editing college guides for Black students, writing nonfiction, teaching creative writing at Brown and Hampton universities and starting his own publishing company. These Radical Black Thrillers Fantasized About Dismantling the Police 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z

This short nonfiction book is a primer on art appreciation for kids. Meryl Streep Wants to Tell You a Bedtime Story 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

Washington Post critic Carlos Lozada says he likes to stay close to the news in selecting the nonfiction books he reviews. Washington Post wins Pulitzer Prizes for criticism, photography; affiliated cartoonist also honored 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

With a book I really like to include nonfiction elements like rules in the course of the book, and the nonfiction elements add a kind of reality to the fiction. Exclusive 'Fight Club 2' pages: Tyler Durden's been around for longer than we thought 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Harriet Beecher Stowe shifted people’s thinking by writing a novel, not a nonfiction account of the evils of slavery. Letters to the Editor 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

It’s a technique he employed to illuminating effect in his nearly 8,000-page “Echolot,” a nonfiction work made up of collected texts offering myriad perspectives on key weeks of the war. 750,000 Germans Fled East Prussia in 1945. A Novelist Imagines One Family’s Exodus. 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

Since I am a nonfiction writer, this was completely discouraging. Do you like my book idea? 2013-02-21T01:00:00Z

This past week, the novelist Cormac McCarthy published the first nonfiction piece of his career, a three-thousand-word essay titled “The Kekulé Problem,” in the popular science magazine Nautilus. Cormac McCarthy Explains the Unconscious 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z

Scorsese's film is adapted from nonfiction book of the same name written by investigative journalist and staff writer at the New Yorker, David Grann. "Killers of the Flower Moon" reveals only part of the monstrous American story of the Osage murders 2023-10-09T04:00:00Z

In nonfiction, we recommend Diane Johnson’s classic biography “The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith,” along with Joe Meno’s poignant odyssey of two Ghanaian men seeking refuge in the United States. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

I fear misstepping here as a nonfiction writer, because this book is fiction, as you underscore in an author's note. How an adopted girl's tragic death became fiction: David Guterson on "bearing witness" 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

Ms. Smith’s books include short stories, works of nonfiction and five previous novels, two of which were also shortlisted for the Man Booker. Ali Smith on Her New Book, ‘How to be both’ 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

Narrative nonfiction thrillers I guess would be the way to put it. I like my imagined literary nemesis 2013-06-01T22:30:00Z

MoMA employs an expansive definition of documentary for this annual nonfiction showcase. Film Series in NYC This Week 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

I knew very little about memoir when I began a graduate program in nonfiction. Alice Sebold's "Lucky" and the problem with memoirs with happy endings 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z

And in the history world, his branding on a nonfiction title carries something like the power of Oprah. Tom Hanks on 'Pacific' HBO Series, World War II, History 2010-03-04T23:55:00Z

On Sunday, at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, the temperature was toasty and there was no interfering noise, and the hundreds of nonfiction pages about the minutiae of the nineteen-century whaling industry were past. Running the “Moby-Dick” Marathon 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

Whether you’re trying to squeeze one last book into 2021 or making your reading plans for the new year, here are eight options: four fiction and four nonfiction. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

Last month I recommended a stack of nonfiction; this month, it’s juicy novels. The 10 books to read in February 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

At the root of all these stories about larger social issues, fiction or nonfiction, is a sense of individual struggle. Reading About Racial Boundaries 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

He’d resisted the idea of writing nonfiction for years before finally yielding to his agent. Bret Easton Ellis Has Calmed Down. He Thinks You Should, Too. 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z

In nonfiction, we have a history of Black contributions to cinema, a study of the neglected link between psychology and physical well-being, and a son’s memoir of his parents’ stormy marriage. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

Ms. Johnson, in correcting that oversight, invites us to reconsider our assumptions about the ethical and emotional foundations of nonfiction filmmaking. Review: In ‘Cameraperson,’ a Found Poem Filtered Through an Intent Eye 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

And she doesn’t limit herself to a single medium: She creates video essays that are distinctly literary, uses comics for serious nonfiction, and turns to illustration when words won’t do.  Faces to watch: Remember these authors and their books 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

This best books of 2012 list, compiled by Seattle Times reviewers, supports that notion — 15 novels and 10 nonfiction books were singled out as the best books they read this year. 25 best books of 2012 2012-12-13T00:31:12Z

This annual series is committed to showing work that operates at the edges of traditional nonfiction cinema. 5 Film Series to Catch in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

They’d also be surprised by the amount of nonfiction I read, other than dictionaries. By the Book: Laurie Halse Anderson 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

On the other hand, perhaps reflecting a cultural turn toward the serious, there are star-laden dramas drawn from topical nonfiction books: “Our Kind of People,” “Maid,” “Dopesick,” “The Shrink Next Door.” Fall TV 2021: The 31 Shows to Watch 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

The white-suited writer, who died Monday at the age of 88, transformed the field of nonfiction, but his four giant novels were equally impossible to ignore. Perspective | How Tom Wolfe saved American fiction 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z

But my style is controversial — narrative nonfiction, the way I write it, some people like it and some people don’t. I like my imagined literary nemesis 2013-06-01T22:30:00Z

Do you approach fiction and nonfiction in the same way? This Week in Fiction: Yiyun Li on the Drive to Identify What’s “Normal” 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z

Last week, the foundation announced longlists of 10 for the five competitive categories: fiction, nonfiction, young people’s literature, poetry and translation. National Book Awards ceremony will again be held online 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

I even have a stack of journals/nonfiction that I read when I’m brushing my teeth. By the Book: Julia Alvarez 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

MoMA employs an expansive definition of documentary for this annual nonfiction showcase, which continues through Feb. 26. 10 Things to Do in NYC Now 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

His catalog — at least 24 books, including novels, novellas, story collections and works of nonfiction — runs the gamut from high-octane crime writing and romances to political commentary and historical fiction. The Essential Gabriel García Márquez 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

As countless fiction and nonfiction writers have pointed out, we have little understanding of what our own consciousness is; we’re in no position to deny it to a perfect simulacrum. Review | The robot revolution is coming: Will there be any room left for us? 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

How did you find the switch from fiction to nonfiction? Gary Shteyngart on How Hedge Funders See the World 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

She was juggling several nonfiction projects and felt stuck, so she decided to write something completely different. Mary Trump and E. Jean Carroll Are Collaborating on a Romance Novel. No Politics Allowed. 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

But Povich says she insisted that the series not be tethered to the nonfiction model. How a fed-up group of ‘Good Girls’ beat the ‘Mad Men’-era sexists 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

In his introduction to “Let Me Tell You What I Mean,” her slim new volume, Hilton Als suggests that it’s Didion’s “feeling for the uncanny” that distinguishes her contribution to American nonfiction. Review | Joan Didion’s ‘Let Me Tell You What I Mean’ shows a writer ahead of her time 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

There’s plenty to love among the nonfiction coming to bookshelves this spring. 19 Works of Nonfiction to Read This Spring 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

They earned nominations as producers for outstanding documentary or nonfiction special and as writers for outstanding writing for a nonfiction program. Pharrell, Beastie Boys, RZA, halftime show score Emmy nods 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

They also wrote “Greetings From Southern California,” a nonfiction book about vintage postcards, in 1988. Carolyn See, award-winning Southern California writer, dies at 82 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

In the early 1970s, Mr. Bowden settled in Tucson, determined to live in the desert and write nonfiction chronicles of his times. Charles Bowden, author of probing, lyrical accounts of the Southwest, dies at 69

In nonfiction, our other choices include an ode to the fungus, a deep dive into French cuisine, a cultural history of female artists and a wide-ranging account of a 17th-century pirate attack. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

The acclaimed novelist, creative nonfiction writer and professor is stepping in to teach some extra classes just after our call. "You have to think about hope": Author Silas House on democracy's demise, climate refugees and dogs 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z

Most nonfiction podcasts are convenient for workouts or commutes, where tuning out for 15 seconds to direct attention elsewhere is no big deal. The Story So Far: Fiction Podcasts Take Their Next Steps 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

"Good Enough" and its companion nonfiction guide to recovery, "You Are Enough," are my attempts to break that language gap. Tweens deal with eating disorders, too: Why I write "tough" books for young kids 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

In a year when many new novels and serious works of nonfiction were overshadowed by the coronavirus pandemic and presidential election, literary awards have helped draw attention to some of them. National Book Critics Circle Names 2020 Award Winners 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

In both fiction and nonfiction, dragging things out is a fashionable way to get to the dark heart of a crime — and it takes considerable talent and imagination to pull it off. Review | ‘Law & Order’ applies its style to true crime, but ‘Menendez Murders’ lacks allure 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z

Daum’s previous books include “The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion,” which won the 2015 PEN Center USA Award for creative nonfiction. New Meghan Daum essay collection coming in October 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

As I said, I read much more nonfiction, criticism, art history — history in general — and much less fiction now. Diane Johnson Wishes More Authors Would Write About Friendship 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

If you need proof, read "Dracula's Guest," a superb collection of vampire fiction — and nonfiction — from writers dealing with the undead. 'Dracula's Guest': a superb collection of Victorian vampire stories 2010-07-21T23:46:00Z

A bonfire of documentary ethics, “Left on Purpose” combines two nonfiction subgenres. Review: ‘Left on Purpose’ Follows a Man Who Plans to Kill Himself 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

This year, nonfiction is back with a vengeance, beginning Friday with the national release of “Fruitvale Station,” by the Weinstein Company, about the 2009 shooting of a young man by an Oakland transit officer. Filmmakers Embrace Reality, on the High Seas and Beyond 2013-07-17T15:36:51Z

Another was filled with fiction and nonfiction classics loosely divided into categories: true crime/violence, feminist theory, “masculinity studies,” and so on. The Re-Enchantment of Carolee Schneemann 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Steele called the memoir about growing up in Philadelphia a “nonfiction book.” Prosecutors Want Cosby ‘Spanish Fly’ Comments as Evidence at Trial 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

Many potential castaways would immediately grab James Boswell’s “Life of Samuel Johnson,” probably the most entertaining work of nonfiction in English literature. Review | ‘The Club’ spotlights the stars of 18th-century British culture — and invites some new members 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

Identity is the strongest through line in the series, whether addressed obliquely or directly, in fiction or nonfiction. A Film Series Honors Black Women Directors 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

Finalists for young people’s literature were announced Monday, with nonfiction scheduled for Wednesday and fiction for Thursday. Codrescu, Bidart Make Long-List for Poetry Award 2013-09-17T13:46:34Z

Brad Pitt, Christian Bale and Ryan Gosling are looking to team up in "The Big Short," an adaptation of Michael Lewis' nonfiction bestseller about the financial crisis of the 2000s, according to a Variety report. Brad Pitt, Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling eying 'Big Short,' report says 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

In a potentially prophetic work of nonfiction, former Vice President Al Gore chronicles the perils of pollution from carbon-based fuel and its correlation with global warming. Cinematic Visions of the Apocalypse 2011-11-11T12:00:23Z

Two Bainbridge Island writers share tips on how to get your nonfiction out there. Local books: Baseball, recipes ... and more baseball 2010-03-22T20:25:00Z

But Moss’s colleagues in the field laud his nonfiction writing as direct and clear — and were not surprised that he pulled off an accessible novel. A thriller writer’s challenge: Make U.S. policy in Africa into a page turner

The nonfiction prize was awarded to Mr. Coates for “Between the World and Me,” his best-selling, conversation-generating book about what it means to be black in America today. Yanagihara, Coates and Muñoz Ryan Win Kirkus Prizes 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

The answer is that Toobin knows such things because he is a polished delivery system for judicious but fast-paced nonfiction bestsellers. Patty Hearst’s America: What “American Heiress” gets wrong (and right) about an insane time and place 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

Temple is still gritting his teeth and carrying on, he said, and not just with nonfiction that touches explicitly on politics. Publishers are reeling from Trump's win, but the news is not all bad 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Others noted a stark gender imbalance in this year’s nonfiction long list, which had nine male writers and just one woman, the New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast. National Book Award Goes to Phil Klay for His Short Story Collection 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

His book has the most devastating ending I can remember in a piece of nonfiction. Books of The Times: ?The Beauty and the Sorrow,? by Peter Englund - Review 2011-11-10T22:18:39Z

Equal parts social history, courtroom drama and tragedy, this meticulously researched nonfiction account traces the impact of a scandalous affair. New Books From Maggie Shipstead, Harriet Lane, Mark Haddon 2012-06-27T19:55:30Z

Loznitsa made most of his nonfiction films on the road in provincial Russia, collecting stories that were, he has said, "bursting to get out of me." 'My Joy' takes fascinating detours on a truck driver's bleak road trip 2012-01-19T20:43:04Z

Instead, I flew through it like it was a nonfiction “The Thorn Birds.” Tom Hanks: By the Book 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

"Unbroken" and "The Theory of Everything" are based on nonfiction stories. Watching the literary film contenders 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

On Tuesday, Kirkus announced the finalists for its first prizes — 18 books in fiction, nonfiction and young readers’ literature. Kirkus book prize finalists vie for three new $50,000 awards

In nonfiction, you might like Barry Sonnenfeld’s Hollywood memoir, or Alexander Norman’s biography of the Dalai Lama, or Sierra Crane Murdoch’s account of fracking and murder on an Indian reservation in North Dakota. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

I’m always reading a crime novel while I’m reading nonfiction. Bill Bratton Doesn’t Root for the Bad Guys 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

Vaid-Menon explores ideas through poetry and nonfiction, but also through fashion, virtual book clubs and live performances. Alok Vaid-Menon Finds Beauty Beyond Gender 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z

In any case, the distinction between fiction and nonfiction isn’t the distinction between falsehood and truth. Aaron Sorkin Hates Screens 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

Can you talk a bit about how — or if — poetry and fiction have helped shape your nonfiction writing? "Dear Damage" author on when your family's tragedy makes headlines 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z

I read mostly nonfiction, with heavy emphasis on biography and social psychology. James B. Comey: By the Book 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

His output encompasses more than four dozen books — including 14 Rawlins novels — science fiction, nonfiction and essays. Walter Mosley’s ‘Charcoal Joe’: Easy Rawlins is back 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

Her favorite find, she said, was a leaf — which was burrowed within a children’s nonfiction book about leaves. Librarian finds love notes, doodles in books and shares them with a grateful public 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Peck, whose fiction and nonfiction titles include “The Man by the Shore” and “Lumumba: Death of a Prophet,” made “Fatal Assistance” over a two-year period after the earthquake. Movie Review: ‘Fatal Assistance,’ About Relief Efforts in Haiti 2014-02-28T00:10:21Z

On April 16, he will publish his first book in nine years — and his nonfiction debut — an essay collection called “White.” Bret Easton Ellis Has Calmed Down. He Thinks You Should, Too. 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z

It is beating the hell out of ‘Roger & Me’ or ‘Hoop Dreams,’ and may catch up to ‘Winged Migration,’ ” he added, citing three of the more profitable nonfiction films of the last 30 years. Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Mister Rogers: Hollywood’s Newest Breakout Stars 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

What qualities did David Foster Wallace most prize in nonfiction writing? Book Review: ‘Both Flesh and Not’ by David Foster Wallace 2012-11-15T16:55:36Z

Claudia Rankine’s nonfiction writing, as presented here in an essay that originally appeared in The New York Times Magazine, lacks some of authority of her verse. Review: ‘The Fire This Time,’ Stoked by Baldwin’s Legacy 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

Kevin Young’s new work of nonfiction, “Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News” offers a rich and thorough answer to James’ question. How fake news, hoaxes and humbug are about race 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

And readers still and always turned to nonfiction, like the hugely popular "Atomic Habits" by James Clear. 22 books we're looking forward to in 2023 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z

From March through May, as the pandemic kept schools closed, that trend increased dramatically, with half of the 12 top-selling categories catering to kids, including three categories of juvenile nonfiction. What the country is reading during the pandemic: Dystopias, social justice and steamy romance 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z

Stories from the Underground Railroad had long been relegated to nonfiction or the broad and simplistic brushstrokes of children's books. A powerful symbol of resistance, the Underground Railroad inspires a wave of books, plays, TV and more 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

Nominees for the fiction and nonfiction categories will be announced in September. Author Geraldine Brooks to receive Dayton literary prize 2010-08-18T17:16:00Z

On Wednesday, the two organizations announced the inaugural winners of the Science + Literature awards, $10,000 honors for books, fiction or nonfiction, “that deepen readers’ understanding of science and technology.” 3 authors named winners of Science + Literature awards 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

The potential to provoke such conversations was key to selecting the exhibition’s art, which comes from 60 books, nonfiction and fiction. Viewing the Civil Rights Movement Through Children’s Books 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

I have this very specific ethos of nonfiction writing, that not only do you have to be truthful, but that you have to push really hard to get the internal truth. “I’m a different animal now”: “The Mommy Group” author gets real about having kids and how America needs to change to support mothers 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Do you have another project lined up, and will it be immersive nonfiction in this vein? ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Lucas Mann Talks About 'Class A' 2013-05-16T19:00:06Z

The book, which spent six weeks atop The New York Times' list of hardcover nonfiction bestsellers, looks at the housing and credit bubble during the 2000s that lead to the 2007 financial crisis. ''Big Short'' author Lewis did not defame money manager - judge 2013-04-01T23:05:41Z