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Non-fiction
Non-fiction news and analysis from The Nation
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December 5, 2018
The poet, academic, and Twitter star’s illuminating book on school closings in Chicago’s Southside is a model for a different kind of sociology.
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November 21, 2018
A new biography of Jimmy Carter’s national-security adviser attempts to place him among the pantheon of master foreign-policy strategists, but was he?
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November 12, 2018
In letters compiled by the American Prison Writing Archive, inmates share accounts of suicide, friendship, and solitary confinement.
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November 8, 2018
What, if anything, can we learn from the 1928 Paris Peace Pact?
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October 25, 2018
Through his massive corpus, the Egyptian novelist helped capture the startling pace and steep costs of a nation in pursuit of independence.
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October 10, 2018
Andrea Komlosy’s new history traces our evolving notions of work and how what we do is ultimately also about what we owe one another.
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September 27, 2018
The legendary reporter and the ambiguities of investigative reporting.
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August 30, 2018
The Nobel Prize laureate in literature believes a new generation in the countries of the former USSR will make the dreams of 1991 a reality.
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August 15, 2018
Guaranteed income would help address issues of basic subsistence, but it's not the panacea its advocates claim it to be.
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August 13, 2018
Snigdha Poonam’s Dreamers examines the ambitions of India’s youth.
