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.
Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
By Matt Singer
A thorough, repetitive ode to the erstwhile irascible duo.
Recalling a pivotal purchase from the late author’s long-ago DC bookstore.
An occasional series in which writers speak for themselves.
Under the Tamarind Tree: A Novel
By Nigar Alam
The fallout from Partition echoes through four friends’ lives.
The genre-spanning writers turn their pens to the metaverse.
Final Resting Places: Reflections on the Meaning of Civil War Graves
Edited by Brian Matthew Jordan and Jonathan W. White
A stirring compendium on why we honor our fallen.
Delayed Gratification
By Bernardine Watson
My later-in-life writing success was well worth the wait.
Blurb Your Enthusiasm
By Louise Willder
A congenial consideration of the words that lure us inside the covers.
