#I also recommend just about anything by lili loofbourow who is my favorite person for pop gender politics

[notbecauseofvictories]

what are your fave history books and non fiction not history related books? i wanna get some learnin done while trudging thru the hell that is job searching

I was about to answer this and say I’m really not a nonfiction person---with the exception of a couple years in between college and law school, I’ve been in school for 21 years. When I have free time, I want to read about dragons, so I can count on one hand the number of nonfiction books I’ve read for pleasure. (I have...kind of a list here, in my “from the bookshelf” tag.)

HOWEVER, the last two years have turned me into an epic news junkie, and there’s some truly phenomenal long-form journalism and personal essays out there. So instead, I’m going to share some of my favorite pieces. Some of them are opinion or personal essay, some of them are reporting, about a whole bunch of different subjects.

Home Fires: Narrative and the Memory of War (NYT, 2010) by Roman Skaskiw

I Know What You Think of Me (NYT, 2013) by Tim Krieder

Dispatches from the Rap Wars (Chicago Magazine, 2016) by Forrest Stuart & Elly Fishman

The Trauma of Facing Deportation (The New Yorker, 2017) by Rachel Aviv

How to Build an Autocracy (The Atlantic, 2017) by David Frum

Why the Scariest Nuclear Threat May Be Coming from Inside the White House (Vanity Fair, 2017) by Michael Lewis

What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men? (Paris Review, 2017) by Claire Dederer

Taking Down Terrorists in Court: Zainab Ahmed (The New Yorker, 2017) by William Finnegan 

Without Native Americans, Would We Have Chicago As We Know It? (WBEZ, 2017) by Jesse Dukes

Five Women (This American Life, 2018) by Chana Joffe-Walt

Why a 'Lifesaving' Depression Treatment Didn't Pass Clinical Trials (The Atlantic, 2018) by David Dobbs

I Tried Leaving Facebook. I Couldn’t. (Verge, 2018) by Sarah Jeong