Nonfiction

Why isn’t Brian Doyle famous?

In his 2000 debut, Mountain City, author Gregory Martin surveys his mother’s deeply-rooted family tree, reticulating the fates of aging relatives and a faded frontier town to assay “ho

Danielle Cadena Deulen has hit her stride and shows no signs of slowing. In a one-two punch, she has demonstrated her strength in prose and verse with recent successes in the awards circle.

When Paul McCartney sang “Hey Jude” at the opening of the 2012 summer Olympics, he unintentionally displayed the profound and humbling power of the human voice.

Except When I Write: Reflections of a Recovering Critic is a collection of literary essays by New York-based writer Arthur Krystal, a well-regarded book reviewer, who, over the course of

On Quixotica

On Lavender and Longing

Some writers’ blurbs beg for expansion into full-length memoirs. Take, for instance, that of Deni Y.

Geoff Dyer draws no distinction between a work of art—a book, a film, a photograph—and his own encounter with it.

Binyavanga Wainana’s fantastic new book, One Day I Will Write About This Place explodes the boundaries of mem