Graveyard Clay and The Dirty Dust
Compare two translations of “Cré na Cille,” Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Irish masterpiece
The Profiteers
Read an excerpt from Sally Denton’s book about the world-building Bechtel Corporation
You Could Look It Up
Read an excerpt from Jack Lynch’s new ode to the encyclopedia
The Wonder of Wuthering Heights
An interview with Alison Case, author of the novel “Nelly Dean”
The Firebrand and the First Lady
Read an excerpt from Patricia Bell-Scott’s book about Eleanor Roosevelt and Pauli Murray
Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich
Read an excerpt from Mary Frances Berry’s new book about vote buying
The Society of Genes
Read an excerpt from Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher’s new book on evolutionary biology
Philip Sparrow Tells All
Read an excerpt from the lost essays of Samuel Steward
Unruly Equality
Read an excerpt from Andrew Cornell’s new history of anarchism
Masters of Empire
Read an excerpt from Michael A. McDonnell’s new book about Great Lakes Indians
