REVIEW: From a Barbados Sugar Plantation to Freedom, or Something Like It
/A Man Booker Prize Shortlist Novel Wrestles with the Agonies of Slavery
Read MoreA Man Booker Prize Shortlist Novel Wrestles with the Agonies of Slavery
Read MoreAnd Jill Lepore’s Fine History of the United States, from Columbus to Trump
Read MoreAnd a Survey of America’s Long History of Bigotry Toward Non-Believers
Read MoreAnd a Surprising History of Congressmen in the 1800s Beating Each Other Up
Read MoreExploring the Nearly Law-Free World of ‘Misdemeanorland’
Read MoreAnd a Google Engineer’s Literate Reflections on Code and Philosophy
Read MoreTalking with an Historian who Rescued a Fascinating Character from Obscurity
Read MoreAnd Steve Jobs’ Daughter on Her Difficult Relationship with Her Father
Read MoreA Novel for Those Who Fear Being Turned Down Everywhere, Including Their Safety School
Read MoreAnd a Beguiling Look at British Colonials in India as the Empire Fades Away
Read MoreWhen the Delivery System of Choice is Not a Conventional Knife, but a Spoon
Read MoreThese Tiny Babies Would Have Died without a Pseudo-Doctor’s Boardwalk Theatrics
Read MoreAnd a Fascinating New Take on How Humans Evolved, and Keep Evolving
Read MoreThe Author’s Hometown of Roanoke, Va., on the Edge of Appalachia, is Near Ground Zero
Read MoreAnd a New York Times Correspondent’s Clear-Eyed Look at the Middle East
Read MoreGod and an Air of Menace are in Kwon’s Details
Read MoreAnd a Memoir of Life as a Hostage of Somali Pirates
Read MoreA Story of Race, Class, and Violated Public Trust
Read MoreAnd a Fascinating Memoir About the Family that Invented Jell-O
Read MoreHow a Quintessential Blue State Became Trump Country
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