The basketball star, who was detained for 10 months, said she hoped her book would raise awareness about other Americans who had been wrongfully detained abroad.
A strip of lush land at the tip of India where spices grow wild, Kerala has long drawn the gaze of outsiders. Here’s Abraham Verghese’s guide to its literature, which nods at these influences but is very much its own.
A contested deathbed declaration; multiple, contradictory wills; allegations of insanity: These are the issues at the heart of “A Madman’s Will,” Gregory May’s account of a Virginia statesman who held men and women in bondage during his lifetime only to emancipate them as he lay dying.
Born into slavery, Charles Ignatius Sancho became a writer, composer, merchant and voter. In a winning first novel, Paterson Joseph conjures his voice and his world.
In “Charleston,” a case study of climate change and government negligence in the South Carolina city, Susan Crawford makes clear the disproportionate costs borne by communities of color in the coastal United States.