The National Book Foundation announced the longlist for its Nonfiction prize. Shortlists will be named on October 7.
Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Knopf)
Caleb Gayle, Black Moses (Riverhead)
Julia Ioffe, Motherland (Ecco)
Fatemeh Jamalpour and Nilo Tabrizy, For the Sun After Long Nights (Pantheon)
Yiyun Li, Things in Nature Merely Grow (FSG)
Lana Lin, The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam (Dorothy)
Ben Ratliff, Run the Song (Graywolf)
Claudia Rowe, Wards of the State (Abrams)
Jordan Thomas, When It All Burns (Riverhead)
Helen Whybrow, The Salt Stones (Milkweed Editions)
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