Raps of Resistance: How Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole Reignited a Hip-Hop Tradition
By Jeremy C. McCool and Earl Hopkins
A persuasive case for the primacy of two singular artists.
We came, we read, we gushed.
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.
The Godmother
By Barbie Latza Nadeau
The lady gangsters of Italy don’t mess around.
The Fifth Act
By Elliot Ackerman
A painful, essential read from perhaps the only author who could’ve written it.
This cerebral work explores music’s power to capture an age.
Saint Juniper’s Folly
By Alex Crespo
A mysterious haunted house sits at the center of this charming queer romance.
In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonders of Complex Systems
By Giorgio Parisi
The intriguing science behind our endless connectedness.
An occasional series in which writers speak for themselves.
The Oud Player of Cairo: A Novel
By Jasmin Attia
A frustrating page-turner about a fascinating time and place.
The novelist talks fascists, his eccentric aunt, and why swingers used to really love ocean liners.
