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.
An occasional series in which writers speak for themselves.
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations
By Simon Schama
Anti-science hysteria is nothing new. (Ivermectin, anyone?)
The writer talks haunted houses, queer YA romance, and being inspired by daydreams.
Happiness Falls: A Novel
By Angie Kim
This stellar, nuanced mystery transcends typical whodunit tropes.
Big new titles perfect for the littles.
The Subversive Seventies
By Michael Hardt
An erudite exploration of a surprisingly pivotal decade.
Wilder
By Millie Kerr
Can tales of species restoration spark global environmental recovery?
The Last Karankawas
By Kimberly Garza
A diverse Galveston community grapples with turmoil on the ground and looming in the clouds.
