The best nonfiction books of the year dug deep, mining both personal and global history to uncover essential truths. John Vaillant captured the horrors of a wildfire to study the consequences of climate change. Matthew Desmond dissected how poverty persists in the United States and made a compassionate call for greater equity. Tracy K. Smith detailed her complicated mission to learn more about her ancestry and urged us to examine whose stories we deem worth preserving. Their books are among the most impactful nonfiction published in 2023. Here, the 10 best books of the year.
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10. King, Jonathan Eig
In the first major biography of Ma…
The actor Jonathan Majors was found guilty on Monday of assaulting and harassing his former girlfriend.
A jury found Majors guilty of misdemeanor assault and harassment in the trial, which began on Dec. 4 in New York City. He was acquitted of a separate charge of assault and of aggravated harassment, the Associated Press reports.
Sentencing is set for Feb. 6. Majors faces up to one year in prison.
Majors was arrested in March and charged with attempted assault, misdemeanor assault, harassment, aggravated harassment, and strangulation—though the last charge was dropped—following an alleged dispute with his then-girlfriend, Grace Jabbari. The actor pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Three months after his arrest in March, Majors filed a police report against…
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
The late Chadwick Boseman’s absence in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever can be felt. Without the heart Boseman brought to the role, the Black Panther character is just not the same. People fell in love with Boseman’s charisma and attitude. He made movie history playing the first Black superhero to get a stand-alone movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. His death in August 2020, following a private battle with colon cancer, came as a shock to many people. Boseman died as Black Panther director Ryan Coogler was working on the script for the sequel. Coogler made adjustments to the script to address the loss of Boseman in the new film, which is …