Nonfiction Books That Should Be Movies

by Francesca Peacock

A sensitive, nuanced biography of an idiosyncratic woman. Full review >

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by Rebecca Renner

Enlightening and full of suspense. Full review >

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by Daniel Finkelstein

An excellent contribution to the literature of the Shoah and a moving homage to the will to endure. Full review >

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by Elyssa Maxx Goodman

An essential addition to the literature of both drag and queer history. Full review >

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by Fergus M. Bordewich

A critically important revisionist history. Full review >

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by Witold Szabłowski ; translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

A bitter history lesson taught with humor and grace. Full review >

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by Manjula Martin

Insightful and alarming, hopeful and consistently engaging. Full review >

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by Stuart A. Reid

An evenhanded work of deep scholarship that clearly elucidates a largely hidden piece of U.S. foreign policy. Full review >

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by Katalin Karikó

An outstanding memoir with a happy ending. Full review >

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by Raynor Winn

Winn exudes the soul of a poet and the grit of a survivor. Full review >

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