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.
To Walk About in Freedom
By Carole Emberton
A formerly enslaved person shares her gripping yet incomplete story.
Red Sauce
By Ian MacAllen
This history of a beloved cuisine is rich in facts but dry as a box of Barilla.
Forgiving Imelda Marcos: A Novel
By Nathan Go
This poignant debut asks: Who’s entitled to offer absolution?
New collections to make life more lyrical.
The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America
By Michael Waldman
Chronicling a right-wing cabal’s fracturing of norms in the U.S.
Act Naturally: The Beatles on Film
By Steve Matteo
A detailed but weak addition to the Fab Four canon.
How The Restless Pen came to be.
Taking Things Hard: The Trials of F. Scott Fitzgerald
By Robert R. Garnett
Analyzing the author via his lesser-known stories.
