This week, Kim and Alice share reads for Black History Month, plus new nonfiction about cobalt, China, Vikings, and clothing. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News 2022 Carnegie Medals [American Library Association] A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib Get a first look at David Sedaris’ new essay collection [Entertainment Weekly] Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris New Nonfiction Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern by Jing Tsu Cobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower by Charlie Angus Worn: A People’s History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads by Cat Jarman Architects of an American Landscape: Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, and the Reimagining of America’s Public and Private Spaces by Hugh Howard Seven Games: A Human History by Oliver Roeder Black History Month Reads The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin Overground Railroad: The Green Book & Roots of Black Travel in America by Candacy Taylor White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue … and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation by Lauren Michele Jackson The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. by Peniel E. Joseph Reading Now The Sentence by Louise Erdrich Medicine in the Middle Ages by Juliana Cummings See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices