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.
Blood & Ink
By Joe Pompeo
A deliciously tawdry, well-told tale.
Bridge to the Sun
By Bruce Henderson
Unsung soldier heroes finally get their due.
Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close
By Hannah Carlson
Unpacking the gendered politics behind those purposeful pouches.
The Wren, the Wren: A Novel
By Anne Enright
A stirring tale of family bonds forged by absence.
In his new book, Arthur C. Brooks offers sage advice for creating contentment.
Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt
By Charlotte Gray
An able corrective to the notion that great men are self-made.
An occasional series in which writers speak for themselves.
The Which of Shakespeare’s Why: A Novel of the Authorship Mystery Near Solution Today
By Leigh Light
A comical exploration of who really penned the Bard’s works.
