Getting to read and reward this year’s best nonfiction, then ... and through those barricades at all costs.” This National Book Award winner is a bold and commendable feat of ethnography.
Yang had an astonishingly productive year, publishing four books aimed at various age groups. My favorite was her memoir of her mother, a companion to “The Song Poet” (about her father) that ...
Memorable characters, delightful nonfiction and poignant ... describe their favorite books of the year. “Romantic Poet,” by Diane Seuss, is one of the best things that our critic A.O. Scott ...
Named the best nonfiction book of the year by ReadingRoom, Whaea Blue by Talia Marshall (Te Herenga Waka University Press, $38) is available as an ideal Xmas gift in bookstores nationwide.