Books
Suzy Hansen’s “From Life Itself” traces the human cost of modernization and authoritarianism in a changing city.
Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger’s poetry carries historical weight, but Carlie Hoffman’s translations struggle to convey the formal poise of the originals.
Essayist and memoirist Isaac Fitzgerald follows Johnny Appleseed into a landscape shaped as much by omission and privilege as by history.
Tillie Walden’s “Charity & Sylvia” transforms archival fragments into a resonant portrait of devotion in early 19th-century Vermont.
In a sweeping account of the nation’s anniversary milestones, Eddie Glaude Jr. shows how whitewashing and racial exclusion have shaped America’s self-image from 1826 to 2026.
Rebecca Novack’s debut blends murder mystery and social satire in a sly, shape-shifting narrative driven by a sex worker who may be telling us exactly what we want to hear.
A powerful new book exposes how the fear of Black liberation shaped the American legal order—and how the legacy of the slave patrol endures today.
Anthony Kaldellis recasts the fall of Constantinople as a long process of attrition, shaped by strategy, fear, and the limits of Western indifference.
This substantial collection of the writings of classical music critic Michael Steinberg evokes a time when critics educated, provoked, and helped build cultural life.
Jean Trounstine’s debut blends hard-won insight with high drama in a prison story of guilt, resistance, and survival.
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