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.

My colleague Emily St. Martin, who has a story coming about this book and its author, told me she’s obsessed with this lively work of nonfiction about two iconic Southern California writers and ...

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The $40,000 US ($56,105 Cdn) award is an initiative by the New York Whiting Foundation that supports writers working on multi-year, book-length nonfiction ... tells the story of three Inuit ...