30 Books

We’ve been acculturated, especially these days, to what resistance sounds like: group chants, shared slogans, rallying cries from podiums, amplified for the masses. One of the inventions of Ilya Kaminsky’s

“Holbrooke? Yes, I knew him. I can’t get his voice out of my head.” So begins George Packer in Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century,

Before Hanif Abdurraqib can begin talking about the legendary Queens hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest, he has to go back — way back. “In the beginning,” he opens, “from

Never have the consequences of one mistake in judgment — nor the challenges of being a single mother and an artist – been more vividly brought to life than they

Lost Children Archive is at once a compelling, beautifully articulated novel and a profound, unsentimental composition on exile. An estranged husband and wife, along with the husband’s ten-year-old son and

It’s been thirty-three years since the accident at the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl, and despite millions in relief funding, extensive local research and the collapse of the Soviet Union,

Which tradition? Whose? Jericho Brown presses these questions continually in the slender, subtle, wry, and beautiful lyric poems of The Tradition – but almost never in ways a reader might

Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments is about the radical sexualities and the aesthetics of waywardness that young black women introduced into early twentieth-century American life. While key cultural figures

The “welfare queen” meme was built on a myth that Josh Levin takes to its gnarly, contradictory origins in his lucid and engaging The Queen. The euphemism was often associated

The central question at the heart of Laura Cumming’s book is what happened when her mother, at age three, was taken away from her parents on an English beach one