Grove at Home: May 31—June 6

…in 1972 In mid-March 1972, around ten thousand Black folks gathered in the city Gary, Indiana for the National Black Political Convention, a convocation to discuss the problems facing Black…

Grove at Home: May 10—16

…the short end of the street in New Orleans East where I grew up. And I wrote it for her, so that there could be some history already in existence.”…

The Gay Metropolis: 50 Years After Stonewall

…ago, on the first anniversary of the riots outside the Stonewall Inn, thousands of ‘young men and women homosexuals’ from all over the north-east marched from Greenwich Village to the…

Stonewall at 50: Suggested readings for Pride!

…her allowance for human complexity.”   Night Beast / Ruth Joffre A masterful debut collection from an important, fresh voice in American fiction, Night Beast presents doomed love stories and…

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…

Mexico Set

Enter Ghost

WINNER OF THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE AND THE ENCORE AWARD • Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and the Gordon Bowker…