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.
Attraction and Abandon(ment)
By W. Luther Jett
Wendy Guerra’s immersive poetry of exile.
A Most Tolerant Little Town: The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation
By Rachel Louise Martin
How Clinton, Tennessee, responded to integration.
Demoiselles of Numidia: A Novel
By Mohamed Leftah; translated by Lara Vergnaud
Prostitutes and pimps navigate their world in 1990s Morocco.
An occasional series in which writers speak for themselves.
Austral: A Novel
By Carlos Fonseca; translated by Megan McDowell
A cerebral, multilayered tale of memory, loss, and long-ago friendships.
A Conversation with Rachel Louise Snyder
By Therese Droste
The journalist talks survival, loss, and how opposing forces shape her writing.
Cultivating Connections
By John Kropf
How the Inner Loop helped me forge important bonds.
Harold: A Novel
By Steven Wright
A preternaturally savvy little kid assesses his world.
