L ee Gutkind, a writer and administrator of a creative-writing program whom Vanity Fair once dubbed the “godfather behind creative nonfiction,” has reached his golden years in triumph. That’s the bad ...

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On Thursday, the journalist Svetlana Alexievich won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. In this post, published last year, Philip Gourevitch praised Alexievich's work and argued that nonfiction ...

As the common core is brought to life in classrooms this year, some English/language arts teachers are finding themselves caught in a swirl of debate about whether the new standards require them to ...

What do kids like to read when given the chance to choose their own books? That’s the subject of this post by three award-winning nonfiction authors — Cynthia Levinson, Melissa Stewart and Jennifer ...

Essay collections, memoirs, biographies, you name it — if it's nonfiction, I'm interested. While I love fiction and my nightstand is littered with make believe, I can't get enough of the true stories, ...

This week, The New Yorker is announcing the longlists for the 2023 National Book Awards. So far, we’ve presented the lists for Young People’s Literature, Translated Literature, and Poetry. Check back ...

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

A year ago, as the holidays approached, I wrote a column with this headline: “Will my grandkids still love me if I buy them nonfiction?” I bought such books for the three boys anyhow. But, as I feared ...