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.
American Ending: A Novel
By Mary Kay Zuravleff
A young woman seeks to transcend her Russian-immigrant family’s world.
Shakespeare’s Book: The Story Behind the First Folio and the Making of Shakespeare
By Chris Laoutaris
A superb account of how the Bard’s compendium came to be.
An occasional series in which writers speak for themselves.
The Late Americans: A Novel
By Brandon Taylor
Twentysomethings try to make sense of the world and their place in it.
The journalist talks Pride, a horrific U.S. Supreme Court, and his abiding faith in Gen Z.
The World: A Family History of Humanity
By Simon Sebag Montefiore
A staggering work of scholarship that also delights in the naughty bits.
Fixer-Upper
By Jenny Schuetz
Will affordable shelter for all ever be a reality?
Manhattan Phoenix
By Daniel S. Levy
This problematic history portrays Gotham as hell in more ways than one.
