Various categories of nonfiction - the latest reviews.
By Mark Flanagan, About.com Guide to Contemporary Literature
Explore reviews of various forms of nonfiction here - biography, memoir, creative nonfiction, history, and more!
Biography & Memoir
Life experience distilled through writing - explore recent biographies and memoirs here.
- 'The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama' by Pico Iyer
- 'Trail of Crumbs' by Kim Sunee
- 'Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life' by Steve Martin
- More Biography and Memoir Reviews
Creative Nonfiction
The creative essay remains the cornerstone of longtime periodicals like The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly, while finding new and edgier voice in journals like McSweeney's. Sample some recent work here.
- 'Ultimate Blogs' edited by Sarah Boxer
- 'A Man Without A Country' by Kurt Vonnegut
- 'I Am America (And So Can You!)' by Stephen Colbert
- More Creative Nonfiction Reviews
History
A broad swath through History, informing where we're going by staying interested in where we've been.
- 'Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations' edited by The Library of Congress
- 'Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs' by Barbara Mertz
- 'Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu' by Laurence Bergreen
- More History Reviews
Philosophy and Religion
Fill up on philosophical or spiritual reading from this variety of selections.
- 'The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama' by Pico Iyer
- 'A New Earth' by Eckhart Tolle
- 'The Mandala of Being' by Richard Moss
- More Philosophy and Religion Reviews
Science Writing
From nature writing to science journalism and various points along and off that path.
- 'Natural Acts' by David Quammen
- 'Brain Rules' by John Medina
- 'The World Without Us' by Alan Weisman
- More Science Writing Reviews
Social Science
"Social Science" encompasses psychology, social issues, and pop sociology - from the brains of such luminaries as Malcolm Gladwell, Steven Levitt, and others.
