The National Book Foundation announced its longlist in the nonfiction category:
Anna Badkhen, Bright Unbearable Reality: Essays (New York Review of Books)
John A. Farrell, Ted Kennedy: A Life (Penguin Press)
Kelly Lytle Hernández, Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands (Norton)
Natalie Hodges, Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time (Bellevue Literary Press)
Meghan O’Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness (Riverhead)
Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation (Ecco)
David Quammen, Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus (Simon & Schuster)
Ingrid Rojas Contreras, The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir (Doubleday)
Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice (Viking)
Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir (Random House)
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