The New YorkTimes bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professoruses the same skills to teach how to access accurate information in a rapidlychanging 24/7 news cycle and become better readers, thinkers, and consumers ofmedia.We live in an information age, but it is increasinglydifficult to know which information to trust. Fake news is rampant in massmedia, stoked by foreign powers wishing to disrupt a democratic society. Weneed to be more perceptive, more critical, and more judicious readers. Thefuture of our republic may depend on it. How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor is more careful, more attentive, more aware reading. Onbookstore shelves, one book looks as authoritative as the next. Online, postsand memes don't announce their relative veracity. It is up to readers toestablish how accurate, how thorough, how fair material may be. After laying out general principles of reading nonfiction, Howto Read Nonfiction Like a Professor offers advice for specific readingstrategies in various genres from histories and biographies to science andtechnology to social media. Throughout, the emphasis will be on understandingwriters' biases, interrogating claims, analyzing arguments, remaining wary ofbroad assertions and easy answers, and thinking critically about the writtenand spoken materials readers encounter. We can become better citizens throughbetter reading, and the time for that is now.