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.
Artifice
By Sharon Cameron
A Dutch teen risks her life selling forged art to the Nazis.
The writer talks SoCal, the punk scene, and the challenge of problematic lyrics.
The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia’s Jews on the Eve of World War I
By Steven Ujifusa
How a German shipping magnate tried to rescue his people.
Big new titles perfect for the littles.
The Other Side of Prospect
By Nicholas Dawidoff
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The price of living on the wrong side of the tracks.
The Village Idiot
By Steve Stern
A mad genius makes art — and provokes his patrons — in pre-WWII France.
How Larry McMurtry single-handedly elevated the Lonestar canon.
The Rebellious CEO: 12 Leaders Who Did It Right
By Ralph Nader
A refreshingly upbeat offering from corporate America’s longtime foe.
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