Summer’s almost over. Alison Fields curated a list of beach-based books to make you feel like you’re still breathing in that sweet sea air.
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Theatre of Wokeness
Are we having a surface-level reckoning?
Posted inStory
Queens of Infamy: Josephine Bonaparte, from Malmaison to More-Than-Monarch
In fraught games of power politics, sometimes the best revenge is not being exiled to die alone on an island in the South Atlantic.
Posted inArts & Culture, Culture, Highlight, profile, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes
Carvell Wallace on ‘Moonlight’ Writer Tarell Alvin McCarney’s Next Acts
Tarell Alvin McCarney’s Broadway debbut,, “Choir Boy,” is a tender coming of age story about a queer Black boy at a prestigious boarding school.
Posted inBooks, Commentary
This Month In Books: ‘This Is Really Not What I Want To Be Reading’
This month’s books newsletter is jam-packed with scammers, censors, and … other books.
Posted inNonfiction
The Story of Salvador’s Banda Didá
In a country with violent history and violent politics, Brazil’s first all-female, Afro-Brazilian percussion group drums and dances and changes lives.
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When Zora and Langston Took a Road Trip
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston gave Langston Hughes a lift to Tuskegee in her Nash coupe, nicknamed “Sassy Susie.” It was one of most fortuitous hangouts in literary history.
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The Unexpected Reemergence of an Elusive Strain of Rice
Hill rice was supposed to be extinct, until a South Carolina chef stumbled on it — in Trinidad.
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After the US Open, a History of Racial Caricature
In the wake of an Australian cartoon about the U.S. Open historian Brooke Newman traces a history of racial caricature.
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Land Not Theirs
Reckoning with a religious upbringing means confronting religion’s role in oppressing women and people of color.
