In spring’s most galvanising non-fiction reads, women writers awaken new – and old – ideas. Discover Vogue’s edit of the best non-fiction books 2024 has to offer, here.
Amid a flood of sensationalist headlines about declining birth rates, Caroline Magennis’s Harpy: A Manifesto for Childfree Women is a tonic: a tongue-in-cheek manual for dealing with Spanish Inquisition-style questioning about saying pass to procreation and building an enriching life beyond the nuclear family, with references to everything from Prime Suspect to Sheila Heti’s Motherhood.
Agnes Arnold-Forster takes a more narrow focus in the illuminating Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion, beginning with the term’s coining by a 17th-century Swiss physician and ending with its weaponisation by MAGA and Brexiteers, while in Vulture Capitalism, Grace Blakeley recasts capitalist democracies as “system of pervasive unfreedom”, a thesis she backs up with excoriating case studies focused on the likes of “the Amazon Chernobyl”, which saw Texaco dump “billions of gallons of...
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