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Each year, I keep a running list of exceptional nonfiction that I encounter as I publish The Best of Journalism, an email newsletter that I curate weekly for its subscribers. This is my annual attempt to bring some of those stories to a wider audience...

Lia Tarachansky’s heart-wrenching documentary, On the Side of the Road, reveals the Big Lie at the heart of the myth of the creation of Israel. Tarachansky had to break through a lot of personal and social barriers to produce this often infuriating...

Karl Ove Knausgaard discusses the MY STRUGGLE series with Scott Esposito for Tin House. From Mein Kampf to Min Kamp: A Conversation with Scott Esposito The author and poet Paul Zweig once wrote that “it is possible to think of language as the most...

By Youssef Rakha. “Was not the earth of Allah spacious enough for you to emigrate therein?” — Quran, 4:98 “For it is often the way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances. And it is also the way we look at...

The Quick Facts Name: Meggie Royer Age: 20. Where are you from? Iowa, but I attend college in Minnesota as a Psychology major. Dream superhero ability? The power to fly. Top 3 favorite movies? Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Crash, and...