Pride Month Reads

…American history, exciting and uplifting. Night Beast / Ruth Joffre A masterful collection from an important new voice in American fiction, Night Beast is profoundly original, gorgeous. These doomed love…

Father’s Day Reads: The Artist

…Tim Murphy In this vivid and compelling novel, Tim Murphy follows a diverse set of artists and activists whose fates intertwine in an iconic building in Manhattan’s East Village, the…

“Do they know about Martin Luther King?”: from the epilogue of Charles Kaiser’s 1968 in America, newly published this month in a thirtieth anniversary edition

…few hundred people gather together at the corner of North 17th Street and East Broadway in Indianapolis, Indiana. They go there to commemorate the words Robert F. Kennedy spoke at…

Celebrating Women’s History Month

…internalized shame that often follows, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East. “Heartfelt but unflinching . . . Broom’s lyrical style celebrates her family bonds, but a righteous…

Authors to Read During Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month

…Los Angeles. While Tessa’s husband Milton enjoys Charlie’s company on his visits to the East Coast, Charlie’s wife Wah is a different case, and she proves to be both adversary…

9 Must-Read Banned Books

…and wheel across Miller’s page.”—William H. Gass, The New York Times Book Review   Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett Banned in East Germany and Guantanamo Bay, people can only…

Invisible Woman

In Invisible Woman, a dangerous secret held for too long between estranged best friends rises to the surface, and a long marriage comes apart with devastating consequences…

Mexico Set

Rock Concert

A lively, entertaining, wide-ranging oral history of the golden age of the rock concert based on over ninety interviews with musicians, promoters, stagehands, and others who contributed to the huge…

Freeman’s: Change

Featuring thrilling new work from Lauren Groff, Ocean Vuong, Rickey Laurentiis, and more, the latest installment of the acclaimed literary journal Freeman’s explores the hope and pain of the ever-changing…