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.
Strangers to Ourselves
By Rachel Aviv
An empathetic look at the power of personal mental-health narratives.
Night Side of the River: Ghost Stories
By Jeanette Winterson
This eerie, incisive collection haunts in more ways than one.
New collections to make life more lyrical.
Between God and Hitler: Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany
By Doris L. Bergen
Did men of the cloth have blood on their hands?
The DC indie opens a new location in Northwest.
A food-filled recollection of growing up brown in suburban New York.
An Interview with Anne Burt
By Diana Friedman
The debut novelist talks Bosnia, Greek tragedy, and finding her voice later in life.
Brooklyn Crime Novel
By Jonathan Lethem
Neighborhood kids weather the grittier parts of gentrification.
