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.
Lots of listening, lots of enjoying.
We came, we read, we gushed. Here’s a recap of the titles that left us especially warm and swoony last month.
November 1942: An Intimate History of the Turning Point of World War II
By Peter Englund; translated by Peter Graves
An extraordinary chronicle of ordinary people caught up in battle.
We love every piece we run. There are no winners or losers. But all kidding aside, here are December’s winners.
Homeward: A Novel
By Angela Jackson-Brown
A young Black woman comes of age in the 1960s South.
War by Other Means
By Daniel Akst
A look at the fighters who refused to take up arms.
You’re with Stupid
By Bruce Adams
Meet an influential record label you’ve probably never heard of.
The Best Is Yet to Come
By Otho Eskin
The pleasure of writing later in life.
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