Jefferson Cowie’s powerful and sobering new history, “Freedom’s Dominion,” traces the close association between the rhetoric of liberty in an Alabama county and the politics of white supremacy.
“It’s all welcome. It just needs to be alive,” says the writer, whose latest novel is “No One Left to Come Looking for You.” “The only genre I avoid is bored certainty.”
In Jane Smiley's latest novel, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," characters Eliza and Jean are determined to figure out who killed their missing colleagues.
From the Jazz Age to the Jim Crow South to late-1960s Southern California, from serial robberies to kidnappings to double homicides: narratives all the more chilling because they happened.
From the Jazz Age to the Jim Crow South to late-1960s Southern California, from serial robberies to kidnappings to double homicides: narratives all the more chilling because they happened.
In her new cultural history, Heather Radke considers how women’s backsides have been described, displayed and fetishized — and what that says about gender, race and more.