Dear reader, Last week, the shortlist for the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction was announced. Six books have been selected, including Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me (Penguin Random House). .While the Women’s Prize for Fiction was established in 1996 to “highlight and remedy the imbalance in coverage, respect, and reverence given to women writers versus their male peers,” the Prize for Nonfiction was established only in 2024. According to The Guardian, the list this time was announced along with some data on gender imbalances in the nonfiction market. Although women writers are reportedly increasing market share in what the...