In “The Secret History of the Rape Kit,” Pagan Kennedy writes about the tool’s inventor and others who have fought for its use The new book “El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval ...
As has been my tradition, I present (in random order) a baker’s dozen of the best nonfiction of 2024, with an emphasis on books that have taught me things I didn’t know. I end with my pick for ...
If you were on a reality show and were about to be sent to a desert island and could only bring four nonfiction books about New Jersey, what would they be? Once “rescued,” you would be quizzed ...
In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. As spooky season approaches, the master of ...
Middle of Diamond India (Penguin India) by Shashank Mani Tripathi is a definitive book that challenges CK Prahalad’s Bottom of the Pyramid Theory and suggests that the economic, social and political ...
Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek ...
“Harari’s two books are obvious examples of this – they cover a massive subject, rather than niche non-fiction which would only appeal to a smaller group,” says Snow. “[Bill] Bryson’s ...