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Monica Youn
‘Blackacre’ is a legal fiction, a hypothetical estate. Monica Youn’s fascinating, multifaceted new collection, Blackacre, uses the term to suggest landscape, legacy, what is allotted to each of us -…
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Bernadette Mayer
A brand spanking new collection, Works and Days is classic Bernadette Mayer: fresh, learned, exciting, and endlessly surprising
Tyehimba Jess
With ambitious manipulations of poetic forms, Jess presents the sweat and story behind America’s blues, worksongs and church hymns.
Ishion Hutchinson
In House of Lords and Commons, the revelatory and vital new collection of poems from the winner of the 2013 Whiting Writers’ Award in poetry, Ishion Hutchinson returns to the…
Alice Kaplan
A biography of the novel that tells us how this poor, sickly young writer from Algeria happened to write perhaps the century’s most ubiquitous novel.
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Carol Anderson
From the Civil War to our combustible present, an acclaimed historian reframes our continuing conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in America.
Ruth Franklin
Reviving the life and work of a neglected master, this biography establishes Shirley Jackson as a towering figure in American literature.
Nigel Cliff
Relates the story of a remarkable young Texan pianist, Van Cliburn, who played his way through the wall of fear built by the Cold War, won the hearts of the…
John Edgar Wideman
An award winning writer traces the life of the father of iconic Civil Rights martyr Emmett Till a man who was executed by the Army ten years before Emmett s…
Jane Mayer
The US is one of the largest democracies in the world - or is it?
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Ibram Kendi
A rising historian presents a masterful opus on the development of racist thought in America, using the stories of Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, William Lloyd Garrison, W.E.B. Du Bois, and…
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Mark Greif
A brilliant collection of essays from one of the most highly acclaimed young writers in the US
Marion Coutts
Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. Beautifully written and full of unflinching truth, The Iceberg is a memoir which will leave an…