{"id":46901,"date":"2025-09-27T14:16:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T14:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/46901\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T14:16:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T14:16:18","slug":"septembers-best-reviewed-nonfiction-literary-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/46901\/","title":{"rendered":"September\u2019s Best Reviewed Nonfiction \u2039 Literary Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arundhati Roy\u2019s Mother Mary Comes to Me, Stephen Greenblatt\u2019s Dark Renaissance, and Jill Lepore\u2019s We the People all feature among the best reviewed books of the month.<\/p>\n

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\"Mother<\/a><\/p>\n

1. Mother Mary Comes to Me<\/a> by Arundhati Roy
(Scribner)<\/p>\n

8 Rave \u2022 4 Positive \u2022 1 Mixed<\/p>\n

\u201cRoy\u2019s stunning, dramatic, funny, far-ranging, and complexly illuminating chronicle portraying two strong-willed women fighting for justice and truth is incandescent in its fury, courage, and love.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Donna Seaman (Booklist<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"Dark<\/p>\n

2. Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare\u2019s Greatest Rival<\/a> by Stephen Greenblatt
(W. W. Norton & Company)<\/p>\n

9 Rave \u2022 2 Positive<\/p>\n

\u201cThe book teems with the erudition and wonder that permeates Greenblatt\u2019s Will in the World and The Swerve \u2026 Less a straightforward biography, more an evocation of Marlowe\u2019s milieu, swimming in lush detail, immersing us in England\u2019s social ferment at a hinge moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Hamilton Cain (The Boston Globe<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"Electric<\/a><\/p>\n

3. Electric Spark: The Enigma of Dame Muriel<\/a> by Frances Wilson
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)<\/p>\n

6 Rave \u2022 4 Positive \u2022 \u00a01 Mixed
Read an excerpt from Electric Spark here<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cA deeply intelligent, captivating and passionate work that reminds us of everything a literary biography can and should be \u2026 Wilson has the utmost respect for Spark, but more important for a biographer, she has fervent curiosity about her \u2026 Who was the real Muriel Spark? We may never know, and that\u2019s the joy and delight of this book.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Jessica Ferri (The Washington Post<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"We<\/a><\/p>\n

4. We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution<\/a> by Jill Lepore
(Liveright)<\/p>\n

7 Rave \u2022 1 Positive<\/p>\n

\u201cMay be [Lepore\u2019s] best yet, a capacious work that lands at the right moment, like a life buoy, as our ship of state takes on water. She\u2019s not here to rearrange deck chairs on the Titanic; she\u2019s here to convey\u2014in vigorous, crystal-clear sentences\u2014what we\u2019re losing, and why \u2026 Lepore senses peril but also a whiff of democratic revival. Asymmetries lie at the foundation of our government; as this gifted scholar reminds us, it\u2019s our duty to tend to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Hamilton Cain (The Los Angeles Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"Lin-Manuel<\/p>\n

5. Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist<\/a> by Daniel Pollack-Pelzner
(Simon & Schuster)<\/p>\n

6 Rave \u2022 1 Mixed<\/p>\n

\u201cPollack-Pelzner is at his strongest when he delves into the fascinating nitty gritty of the collaborations that help productions come together \u2026 But this is not a hagiography. Pollack-Pelzner is frank about Miranda\u2019s shortcomings \u2026 Pollack-Pelzner uses these details to treat Miranda as the creator he is\u2014enthusiastic, vulnerable, ambitious, innovative, fallible\u2014instead of as a mere celebrity. A different biographer might have used this as an occasion for dishy name dropping.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Jennifer Vanasco (NPR<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arundhati Roy\u2019s Mother Mary Comes to Me, Stephen Greenblatt\u2019s Dark Renaissance, and Jill Lepore\u2019s We the People all…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[288,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-46901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}