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The best biographies of 2020, books shortlisted by the National Book Critics' Circle, and discussed by author and criticm Elizabeth Taylor.
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is a nonfiction book by the American journalist Isabel Wilkerson, published in August 2020 by Random House. The book describes racism in the United States as an aspect of a caste system—a society-wide system of social stratification characterized by notions such as hierarchy, inclusion and exclusion, and ...
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Dec 7, 2020 · Natasha Trethewey’s Memorial Drive, Barack Obama’s A Promised Land, Helen Macdonald’s Vesper Flights, Craig Brown’s 150 Glimpses of the Beatles, and Heather Clark’s Red Comet all feature among the best reviewed memoirs and biographies of 2020.
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- Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson. (Random House) 21 Rave • 4 Positive • 9 Mixed • 1 Pan. Read an excerpt from Caste here. “…elegant and persuasive … She has, in particular, a masterly command of the complex extended metaphor … What distinguishes Wilkerson is her grasp of the power of individual narratives to illustrate such general ideas, allowing her to tell us what these abstract notions have meant in the lived experience of ordinary people … The dexterity with which she combines larger historical descriptions with vignettes from particular lives, recounted with the skill of a veteran reporter, will be familiar to readers of The Warmth of Other Suns… Caste will spur readers to think and to feel in equal measure.
- A Promised Land by Barack Obama. (Crown) 13 Rave • 15 Positive • 5 Mixed. “The Obama of A Promised Land seems complicated or elusive or detached only if you think that these two elements of the president’s job—the practical and the symbolic—must be made to add up in every particular.
- Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener. (MCD) 10 Rave • 19 Positive • 6 Mixed. Read a profile of Anna Wiener here. “Wiener was, and maybe still is, one of us; far from seeking to disabuse civic-minded techno-skeptics of our views, she is here to fill out our worst-case scenarios with shrewd insight and literary detail … Wiener is a droll yet gentle guide … Wiener frequently emphasizes that, at the time, she didn’t realize all these buoyant 25-year-olds in performance outerwear were leading mankind down a treacherous path.
- Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald. (Grove) 20 Rave • 3 Positive • 1 Mixed. Read Helen MacDonald’s “The Things I Tell Myself When I’m Writing About Nature” here.
Feb 11, 2020 · Featuring 289 industry-first reviews of fiction, nonfiction, children’s, and YA books; also in this issue: interviews with Vashti Harrison, Amandeep Kochar of Baker & Taylor, Elin Hilderbrand, Ann Powers, Tomi Adeyemi; and more.
Dec 9, 2020 · Explore the life of intrepid explorer Sanmao, how America rewrote its own history, and Abraham Lincoln’s legacy in the best nonfiction titles of 2020.
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Pages in category "2020 non-fiction books" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 267 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
