For Real

This week Alice and Kim share some books about odd jobs plus cover new nonfiction about Hong Kong, prison, and cold cases. 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. Follow Up Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can’t Live Without Them by Adrienne Raphel How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation by Maud Newton New Nonfiction Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong by Louisa Lim Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis Free: Two Years, Six Lives, and the Long Journey Home by Lauren Kessler Unmasked: My Life Solving America’s Cold Cases by Paul Holes Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives by Mary Laura Philpot Some of My Best Friends