Nostalgia-fueled interest in retro music and contemporary artists’ expressions of “black resistance, joy, and togetherness” are at the heart of today’s soul music... Read More

E. Patrick Johnson’s oral history "Honeypot" takes a unique approach to preserving the lives of black queer women who were raised in the American South. Using a fictional... Read More

A rising sea level is an inevitability, write Orrin Pilkey and Keith Pilkey in "Sea Level Rise", whose research concentrates on the American shoreline. Factual prose avoids... Read More

Gökçe Günel’s "Spaceship in the Desert" is the fascinating story of a “zero-carbon eco-city” that demonstrates the stark difference between vision and reality. Masdar... Read More

"Bloodflowers" is a nuanced, scholarly analysis of the brief but influential career of photographer Rotimi Fani-Kayode, whose family fled Nigeria’s 1960s civil war for London.... Read More

Black womanhood is a complex, deeply provocative subject that exists at the intersection of multiple identities. Tamura Lomax’s new book "Jezebel Unhinged" is a phenomenal... Read More

"Biblical Porn" is, like the story of Mars Hill Church, both more complex and more disturbing than it first appears. Jessica Johnson’s unsparing book offers a deep look at the... Read More

“There is nothing like reading your own police file to make you wonder who you really are,” Katherine Verdery reflects in her true-life, anthropological whodunit. "My Life... Read More

Melanie S. Morrison’s gripping, revealing, and tragic "Murder on Shades Mountain" returns to 1931 and the Jim Crow South to cover the trial of Willie Peterson, blamed for the... Read More

"Lending Power" is Howard Covington’s uplifting and compelling account of a credit union that champions the underserved. The story of Self-Help Credit Union is as much about... Read More

This is the story of a family and its struggle between old and new homelands, between idealism and reality. Bill Lazarre was an immigrant from what’s now Moldova, an organizer... Read More

This celebration of vinyl speaks to the transience of pop culture and its intersection with everyday lives. For twelve years, music critic, curator, and collector John Corbett... Read More