For lovers of nonfiction, 2025 has been a great year. For starters, it saw literary giants like Margaret Atwood and Zadie Smith doing us the pleasure of reflecting on everything from childhood to pop ...

Non-fiction in 2025 feels sharper, braver and more curious than anything in recent memory. These books do more than inform. They challenge assumptions, widen moral horizons and bring clarity to ...

My nonfiction list this year is wildly skewed—half tech dystopia, half mountain mysticism, with a multitude of memoirists weaving through the middle. It feels chaotic, but perhaps it mirrors the ...

The Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood, 85, has done it again. The prolific Canadian writer, poet, and essayist has won two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, the ...

Doubt arrives quietly. Sometimes it sits in your mind like a stubborn fog—you know you want to move, grow, dream, but something inside whispers “What if you fail?” or “What if you’re not ready?” But ...