In an outstanding year for serious nonfiction, these writers excelled at shedding light on complex and underexplored topics.

The fiction, nonfiction and poetry that shifted our perspectives, uncovered essential truths and encouraged us forward Annabel Gutterman, Cady Lang, Arianna Rebolini and Lucas Wittmann This ...

Sergei Loznitsa’s 2021 IDFA Award for Best Film in the International Competition-winning Mr. Landsbergis (IDFA coverage for Documentary magazine) Running for an impressively addictive four hours, ...

Here's my shortlist of the best hip-hop podcasts of the year, along with the albums I couldn't stop listening to in between time. What caught my ear and held it in 2021? There's no coherent ...

This copy is for your personal, noncommercial use only. 30 weeks on the list by Amy Tan Knopf Essays and drawings by the author of “The Joy Luck Club” and “The Bonesetter's Daughter ...

This copy is for your personal, noncommercial use only. 41 weeks on the list by Jonathan Haidt Penguin Press A co-author of “The Coddling of the American Mind” looks at the mental health ...

It makes for an interesting footnote to the events of Jan. 6, 2021. Closing out the Nonfiction Author Series will be Adam Lazarus, whose “The Wingmen” chronicles the surprising — and ...

The best nonfiction books of the year tackle undeniably difficult topics. Many are personal stories about surviving the unthinkable. Salman Rushdie describes the violent attack that nearly killed him.