Death and grief, love and sex, gender and race: the year’s best nonfiction demonstrates no shortage of bravery its encounters with major social, political, personal, and historical themes. Nor did these books shy away from the formal daring required to navigate those themes; in many ways, we’ve seen enough stylistic invention, reinvention, and resourcefulness in one year to last us the next five.
That’s because each of these books presses into new ways of negotiating personal struggle with the promises and expectations of society. The results, as you can see, are staggering.
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