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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. 

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 New York Times Best Seller

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. 

The Shortest History of Italy: 3,000 Years from the Romans to the Renaissance to a Modern Republic - A Retelling for Our Times

The Ordinal Society

A World of Enemies: America's Wars at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden

Out now in Current Affairs – Apr 19 2024

The book club mavens have made their April picks, and there’s something here for every reader—from an astrophysicist’s predictions about the end of days, to a novel mash-up of Groundhog Day and Bridget Jones’s Diary. See the Tertulia bestseller picked by Kaia Gerber and the essay collection that Roxane Gay said inspires her to maintain strength in times of crisis. 

Real Americans

The Most Fun We Ever Had

Crying in H Mart: A Memoir

What Book Clubs Are Reading in April

What Book Clubs are Reading in April

Whether you're looking for the best new book club pick for your group or what Reese Witherspoon is reading this month, the next book you should read is on this list.

During this time of crisis, we’ve turned to some trusted sources to see what books the experts recommend reading for context on the history and present state of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Now updated with some fiction and memoirs, these recommendations have been compiled from the Financial Times, Economist, Foreign Policy, Slate, LitHub and The Guardian. 

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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel

An Israel-Palestine Reading List: Recommendations from Experts

An Israel-Palestine Reading List: Recommendations from the Experts

During this time of crisis in the Middle East, we’ve turned to some trusted sources to see what books the experts recommend reading for context on the history and present state of the Israel-Palestine conflict. 

As we wade into a contentious and nerve-racking election year—not just in the U.S. but around the world—we share a few books that explain how we have arrived at a precarious state of democracy and what is to be done about it. Even if you're already an informed voter, these books might inspire you to get politically active during 2024. After all, democracy is not a spectator sport.

Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point

The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back

Democracy in Crisis:  10 Books on Why and How to Preserve Democracy

10 Books on Preserving Democracy and Getting Politically Active During This Election Year

As we wade into a contentious and nerve-racking election year—not just in the U.S. but around the world—we share a few books that explain how we have arrived at a precarious state of democracy and what is to be done about it.

Stories of remarkable women dominate the celebrity book club picks this March, as is fitting for Women’s History Month. Both Reese's Book Club and Alison Stewart champion Xochitl Gonzalez’s sophomore novel about a Brooklyn art school student discovering the life of a forgotten female artist. Backlist gems get some love with Natalie Portman selecting  Nora Ephron’s Heartburn and Kaia Gerber picking the reissue of the 1979 classic Sex and Rage, about a dreamy girl going to New York to find her purpose. Whether reading in a room of one’s own or planning next month's pick for their own clubs, Tertulia members get a diverse set recommendations this month from the book club mavens.

Anita de Monte Laughs Last: Reese's Book Club Pick (a Novel)

Wandering Stars

Heartburn

What Book Clubs Are Reading in March

Celebrity Book Club Picks for March

Check out the best celebrity book club picks for March 2024, from Oprah, Reese's Book Club, Kaia Gerber's Library Science, Belleletrist and more. 

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A rousing commentary on the history of labor and the future of work. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles or classic storytelling from the magazine's 165-year archive. On Work gathers a selection of Derek Thompson's most popular and significant writing on work, life, and the future of jobs. From essays on how mass automation could change society to his widely read treatise on "workism" as our modern religion, Thompson's analysis and forecasts have become fixtures of the twenty-first century conversation about work.

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