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A Fate Worse than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War
By W. Fitzhugh Brundage
A harrowing assessment of a savage penal system.
You Can’t Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads
By Brad Snyder
Why a 1930s Black activist could’ve gotten the chair.
The Library of Lost Maps: An Archive of a World in Progress
By James Cheshire
An exquisite homage to the charts that plot the way.
Extraneous details bury the thrills in this corpse-stealing tale.
The Neighborhood: Space, State, and Daily Life in a Manchurian City
By Nianshen Song
An unremarkable Chinese crossroads proves anything but.
Jesus Wept
By Philip Shenon
A detailed, journalistic chronicle of pivotal, sometimes problematic clergymen.
Meet some of the true believers behind the sunglasses and masks.
Eleanor: A 200-Mile Walk in Search of England’s Lost Queen
By Alice Loxton
The past is made tangible in this fascinating history.
