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.
The novelist talks pools, addiction, and the aftermath of the DC derecho.
One of the Independent’s most cherished contributors is gone.
Big new titles perfect for the littles.
Close to Home: A Novel
By Michael Magee
Young adults in a broken West Belfast try to move past the Troubles.
A Union Like Ours
By Scott Bane
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Recalling a forbidden midcentury romance.
The Facemaker
By Lindsey Fitzharris
An affecting yet disorderly account of a pioneering doctor’s life-changing work.
In Sardinia: An Unexpected Journey in Italy
By Jeff Biggers
A worthy corrective to the island’s unfairly tarnished reputation.
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