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.
Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
By Drew Gilpin Faust
An historian/academic reflects on the tumultuous 1960s.
Tales of the Unexpected
By Austin Ross
The generosity of DC’s literary community was a pleasant surprise.
Nein, Nein, Nein!
By Jerry Stahl
A writer soothes his sadness at Auschwitz. Really.
Bad Mexicans
By Kelly Lytle Hernández
An intelligent, valuable political history from south of the border.
Left Is Not Woke
By Susan Neiman
Liberal ideology can’t be reduced to a meaningless catchphrase.
Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade
By Jonathan W. White
An ambitious, bloated tale of 19th-century derring-do.
Tom Lake: A Novel
By Ann Patchett
This story centers on a happy family but still the pages fly by.
An occasional series in which writers speak for themselves.
