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«I suspect it is the techniques of fiction, also often used by nonfiction writers, that are especially valuable now. I say this because it’s possible that we as a culture suffer from a particularly debilitating case of thinking we know much more than we know… .

This false sense of knowing — not a new problem, but perhaps a newly pressing one — has been made worse by the ease with which we find Web sites devoted to telling us what we already want to hear and already suspect is true. There are even algorithms for this; confirmation bias has never been more pervasive or insidious. We inhabit fanciful castles of facts.

Mostly we read the nonfiction that suits our fancy, and tend to ignore that which does not. Not for aphoristic economy alone did Nietzsche observe that convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. Because we are less sure of what fiction is “saying,” we are less pre-emptively defended against it or biased in its favor. We are inclined to let it past our fortifications. It’s merely a court jester, there to amuse us. We let in the brazen liar and his hidden, difficult truths.»

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/books/review/whats-behind-the-notion-that-nonfiction-is-more-relevant-than-fiction.html?ref=books&_r=3&pagewanted=all&