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Music fans, policy wonks, and romance novel lovers will love this week's new releases, featuring buzzy releases from Miranda July and punk rock legend Kathleen Hanna. 

This Strange Eventful History

All Fours

The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis

New Arrivals for the Week of May 13th

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New releases from Miranda July and Kathleen Hanna are musts for your spring reading.

Each year, the Pulitzer Prizes honor the highest achievements in print journalism, literary achievement, and musical composition in the preceding year across 23 categories. Below are the winners and finalists in fiction, history, biography, memoir or autobiography, poetry, and general nonfiction. Honorees include Jonathan Eig's monumental biography of MLK Jr., Cristina Rivera Garza's heart-wrenching investigation into her sister's murder, and Jayne Anne Phillips' harrowing, post-Civil War novel.  

Night Watch (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Same Bed Different Dreams

Wednesday's Child: Stories

This Year's Pulitzer Prize Winners

The 2024 Pulitzer Prize Winners

Here are the winners and finalists for the 2024 Pulitzer Prizes for fiction, history, biography, memoir or autobiography, poetry, and general nonfiction.

This week's roundup include new releases from Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City, parent-baby whisperer Emily Oster, and Goodbye, Vitamin author Rachel Khong.  

The New York Times Best Seller

Real Americans

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart--Again

The Best Books Out Today | April 30

New Arrivals for April 30

This week's new releases include new books from Goodbye, Vitamin author Rachel Khong and millennial baby whisperer Emily Oster. If you are looking for a fresh voice, Nylon Magazine has raved about Geoffrey Mak's debut Mean Boys.

Warren and Bill: Gates, Buffett, and the Friendship That Changed the World

Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder

The Unexpected: Navigating Pregnancy During and After Complications

Out now in Non-Fiction – May 3 2024

Every Wednesday throughout the year, the New Yorker’s editors and critics curate the most thought-provoking and talked-about books. We’re sharing some nonfiction highlights here in an eclectic reading list including: the acclaimed memoir of motherhood and divorce from Leslie Jamison, a dishy oral history of The Village Voice, and a timely, important examination of 2020 through the lens of five ordinary New Yorkers.

Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year

The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture

I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

The New Yorker's Favorite Nonfiction of 2024 So Far

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The New Yorker rounds up the best new book, and we've chosen our favorite nonfiction picks of 2024 so far. This eclectic mix includes a new memoir from Leslie Jamison, an oral history of The Village Voice, and more.

Each year, thousands of authors publish their scholarly contributions in new books, and it's almost impossible to keep up with which of these are the most accessible and rewarding to a general audience. We've put together a curated list of some of our favorite university press books this year that offer in-depth and expert takes on history, cultural studies and policy. Readers seeking a deeper understanding of these subjects will love these rigorous and enriching reads.

A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America

The Importance of Being Educable: A New Theory of Human Uniqueness

The Driver's Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery

Hot Off the (University) Press: Best Books of 2024 So Far 

Best University Press Books of 2024 

We've put together a curated list of some of our favorite university press books this year that offer in-depth and expert takes on history, cultural studies and policy. 

Policy wonks have a lot to look forward to this month, with new releases from Jen Psaki, George Stephanopoulos, Bill Maher, and AJ Jacobs. If talking about politics fills you with existential dread, might we suggest Sebastian Junger's sublime memoir about what might be waiting for us in the afterlife?

Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning

What This Comedian Said Will Shock You

Nonfiction Books with Buzz: May Releases from Wonks and Journalists

Policy wonks have a lot to look forward to this month, with new releases from Jen Psaki, George Stephanopoulos, Bill Maher, and AJ Jacobs. Plus, Sebastian Junger's sublime memoir about what might be waiting for us in the afterlife?

If there's one book you read this Earth day, make it one of these. Meticulous in their research, but still accessible to the general reader, these are 5 of the best recent books to read about climate change. These books differ in their assessments of the current state of the climate crisis. Some offer more grim takes and others more encouraging. But all agree that the need to do more is urgent and stakes are enormous.

Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth's Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis

Five Books to Read on Climate Change Now

Five Books to Read on Climate Change

If there's one book you read this Earth day, make it one of these. Meticulous in their research, but still accessible to the general reader, these are 5 of the best recent books to read about climate change. 

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Donna Spencer

<p>Card sorting helps us understand how people think about content and categories. Armed with this knowledge, we can group information so that people can better find and understand it. In this book, Donna describes how to plan and run a card sort, then analyse the results and apply the outcomes to your project.</p>

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