The book traces how amateur blackface minstrelsy wasn’t just a fleeting theatrical phase, but the hidden operating system of ...

IOWA CITY — Two more University of Iowa graduates won Pulitzer Prizes this week for works in memoir and fiction, bringing the total Iowa-affiliated Pulitzer winners to nearly 50 and affirming the ...

Two University of Iowa alumni have won 2026 Pulitzer Prizes, and two more were named finalists — with Yiyun Li and Daniel ...

As all bibliophiles will know, there is nothing worse than picking up a book you have been looking forward to – only for it to feel like a slog to read. When it comes to non-fiction, this can happen ...

London Writers Centre and Eve White Literary Agency have launched a new non-fiction writing competition for writers from backgrounds that are underrepresented in UK publishing. The prize follows the ...

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Nonfiction books are a crucial bulwark against the surging public culture of “alternative facts,” outright lies, and the brazen embrace of ignorance. These developments suggest a rough future for a ...

The note from the university provost to staff says multiple faculty have been informed of an intent not to renew their existing contract. That was wording used by Nancy Ortins Savage, provost at the ...

I appreciated how he showed the grueling, day-to-day work local journalism requires, and how many layers of people fought him in revealing the despicable work of the Ku Klux Klan. Ahead of our second ...

These are challenging times by any metric, but here’s something that’s also true: 2026 is shaping up to be a great year for books. Some of our most talented writers are delivering novels, nonfiction ...

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