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.
American Confidential: Uncovering the Bizarre Story of Lee Harvey Oswald and His Mother
By Deanne Stillman
Adding questionable conjecture to the saga of JFK’s assassin.
The Vicar: A Novel of Espionage
By A.J. Chambers
An action-packed, implausibly over-the-top MI5 thriller.
The Hurricane Blonde: A Novel
By Halley Sutton
Fame is a killer.
An occasional series in which writers speak for themselves.
The poet talks tragedy, Holocaust jokes, and the power of humor to help us endure.
To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul
By Tracy K. Smith
A searing, soaring lament to our better angels.
American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860
By Edward L. Ayers
A broad, beneficent examination of the six decades before the Civil War.
War and (My) Remembrance
By Pantea Amin Tofangchi
Finding the words to write about tragedy.
