A New Story for Black Americans
Plus: secrets of political conventions and the alchemy of crowdsourced poetry
Catullus’ Bedspread
Read an excerpt from Daisy Dunn’s new biography of Rome’s most erotic poet
Go West, Young Scholar
Or, how to enjoy a California wine in a national park full of rattlesnakes
Engineering Eden
Read an excerpt from Jordan Fisher Smith’s new book about the trial that changed our national parks
“Guns Don’t Kill People, People Kill People” and Other Myths
Read an excerpt from Dennis A. Henigan’s updated book about gun control
Reading Lolita in Maximum Security Prison
Plus: underground art beneath Dupont Circle and headless chickens in Chile
Neither Snow Nor Rain
Read an excerpt from Devin Leonard’s eclectic history of the U.S. Postal Service
Superheroes Are So Gay!
Dig into the queer politics of American comics
The Sting of the Wild
Read an excerpt from Justin O. Schmidt’s new book about venomous bugs
Good Neighbors
An excerpt from Nancy L. Rosenblum’s new book about everyday American life
