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.
Graveyard of the Pacific: Shipwreck and Survival on America’s Deadliest Waterway
By Randall Sullivan
A memoir disguised as an adventure tale.
Enjoy this Grateful American™ reading recommendation!
The Burning Land: The Overstreet Saga, Book Two
By David O. Stewart
The Civil War comes vividly to life in this gripping tale.
Change Is Here to Stay
By Kate Lewis
Fall for the Book embraces the virtual this month!
Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
Edited by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua
This ponderous collection contains a few hidden gems.
The Librarianist: A Novel
By Patrick deWitt
A droll, uneven tale about the trials of a bookish loner.
The novelist talks Moscow, Jewish identity, and why everybody should read The Master and Margarita.
The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune
By Alexander Stille
How a family-eschewing cult took root in Manhattan.
