A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South
By Melvin Patrick Ely
The boundaries between the enslaved and the free were blurry but never invisible.
We love every piece we run. There are no winners or losers. But all kidding aside, here are June’s winners.
An Interview with John A. Jenkins
By Bert Brandenburg
The journalist talks Watergate, the Pentagon Papers, and the summer when everything came to a head.
The Edge of the Plain
By James Crawford
A look at lines from both sides now.
The Huxleys
By Alison Bashford
A sweeping, intelligent look at a trailblazing family.
Homer and His Iliad
By Robin Lane Fox
Did the blind poet really pen the ancient epic by himself?
Unfinished Woman: A Memoir
By Robyn Davidson
This challenging, rich reflection rewards patient readers.
No, You Don’t Just Need to Lose Weight
By Antoaneta Tileva
Aubrey Gordon’s powerful 2023 treatise rejects our fat-shaming mindset.
Uncivil War: The British Army and the Troubles, 1966-1975
By Huw Bennett
Reassessing a painfully fraught period in the midcentury U.K.
What the Taliban Told Me
By Ian Fritz
Eavesdropping on the enemy has a way of humanizing them.
An Interview with Jennifer Lang
By Diana Friedman
The memoirist talks marriage, playing with form, and the joy of hanging her final mezuzah.
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