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.
It's the Fourth of July! Light a firecracker and grab a book that says "USA"!
We came, we read, we gushed. Here’s a recap of the titles that left us especially warm and swoony last month.
The Wounded World: W.E.B. Du Bois and the First World War
By Chad L. Williams
An outstanding account of the eminent intellectual’s literary Waterloo.
We love every piece we run. There are no winners or losers. But all kidding aside, here are June’s winners.
The Winning Ticket
By Rob Sand with Reid Forgrave
The entertaining tale of a gamer gone bad.
The Islander
By Chris Blackwell with Paul Morley
Reflections of a Brit kingmaker whose hits outnumbered his misses. Barely.
8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster
By Mirinae Lee
A woman weathers a turbulent, divided Korea by assuming multiple identities.
A Stranger in Baghdad: A Novel
By Elizabeth Loudon
A British wife navigates multiple upheavals in a politically shifting Iraq.
