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.
Hestia Strikes a Match: A Novel
By Christine Grillo
An American woman looks for love after the Civil War. The second one.
These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs ― and Wrecks ― America
By Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner
An impassioned, one-sided look at big-money behemoths.
Those Magic Moments
By Laura Hazan
Thanks for an amazing 2023 Washington Writers Conference!
Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History
By Benjamin Balint
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A gut-churning account of a visionary lost to the Holocaust.
The author talks conservation, Yosemite, and the legacy of John Muir.
Dog on Fire
By Terese Svoboda
Two damaged, vastly different women navigate a shared grief.
From Baltimore, with Love
By Lora Robinson
Finding my words — and myself — in Charm City.
Into the Inferno
By Stuart Palley
Holding the line against unrelenting flames.
