The year is more than halfway through, and it’s easy to feel lost in a sea of new book recommendations. While some readers have been diving headfirst into trendy divorce memoirs — or the latest dragon smut (no judgment!) — a wave of deeply personal and thought-provoking releases has made it to bookshelves. The best new nonfiction we’ve read this year explores trauma, the color blue, the devastating shortcomings of western media, and a lifetime’s worth of love and sex. Meanwhile, a previously published South Korean novel from last year’s Nobel Prize in Literature winner has finally been translated into English, and the author of 2021’s buzziest fiction debut hasn’t missed a step with her follow-up, a confident and imaginative collection. Oh, and March gave us a vampire story we’re descr

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