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NYRB reviews many non-fiction books. I would go as far as saying that 3/4 of the books they review are non fiction. I chose an archived issue at random: http:
by Ollinson 12y ago
NYRB reviews many non-fiction books. I would go as far as saying that 3/4 of the books they review are non fiction.
I chose an archived issue at random:
http://www.nybooks.com/issues/2014/jul/10/ http://www.nybooks.com/issues/2014/jul/10/
There are only 4 works of fiction reviewed there. Everything else is either world politics, finance, or historical events. Science and philosophy are very heavily reviewed also.
If you never read an issue of the NYRB I highly encourage it. It is one of my favorite publications and it's bi-monthly so the quality is very high.
Daniel Mendelsohn's pieces alone are worth the price of a subscription
- graycat 12y agoI'm big on long tail Web sites and much more in specialization, regard these, via the Internet, as potentially major sources of progress for civilization, literally. So, the NYRB should change their "a literary and critical journal" which, in my case, of course, takes me back to senior English with the teacher leaning back, gazing at the ceiling in some state of ecstasy about some belle lettre thing and, thus, makes me want to reach for a fire ax and swing at anything related, for art as communication, interpretation of human experience, emotion. If the NYRB has some non-fiction, i.e., some stuff that is actually true, then terrific.