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Nonfiction Features

  • Brooke Gladstone on the Media
  • Being Jonathan Lethem
  • '33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs from Billie Holiday to Green Day'
  • Lennon and the Cost of Fame
  • Following Mother Teresa in ‘An Unquenchable Thirst’
  • Patricia Bosworth’s ‘Jane Fonda’
  • Wendy Wasserstein’s Uncommon Life
  • Robert Lifton, ‘Witness to an Extreme Century’
  • ‘In the Garden of Beasts’ with Erik Larson
  • Inside Google with 'In the Plex'
  • 'Green is the New Red,' offers a glimpse of social activism 'under siege'
  • Garden Rant: The 'Founding Gardeners'
  • Monty Python's Michael Palin talks 'Halfway to Hollywood'
  • Neil Strauss' 'Everyone Loves You When You're Dead'
  • Andre Dubus III on 'Townie'

Best of 2011

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Publishers Named to Best Nonfiction of 2011


  • Atlantic Monthly
  • Basic
  • Bellevue Literary Press
  • City Lights
  • Crown
  • Doubleday
  • Dunne/St. Martin's
  • Ecco/HarperCollins
  • Faber & Faber/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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  • Free Press
  • Grove
  • Harper/HarperCollins
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  • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Hyperion
  • It Books/HarperCollins
  • Knopf
  • Little, Brown
  • Macmillan
  • Melville House
  • Metropolitan/Henry Holt
  • Modern Library
  • Norton
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  • Spiegel & Grau
  • Univ. of Chicago
  • Viking



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