An Education and a Love Story
Chris Young’s The Wound Is Where the Light Enters: A Memoir of Resilience shows us what it’s like to grow up in poverty, land in prison, and survive to find love and redemption.
Beyond Monumental Figures
In I’ll Make Me a World: The 100-Year Journey of Black History Month, Harvard professor Jarvis R. Givens interrogates how historical consciousness should be grounded in everyday life.
Parsing American Education
Jarvis R. Givens’ American Grammar: Race, Education, and the Building of a Nation details the interconnected stories of race in the history of U.S. education.
An Uncommon Childhood
In Destroy This House, Amanda Uhle, executive director of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, takes readers inside her 1980s childhood with a hoarder mom and an entrepreneur-turned-preacher father. Uhle will appear at the 2025 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 18-19.
“Who Do You Think You Are?”
In The Trouble of Color, Martha S. Jones interrogates how her Kentucky ancestors negotiated the “color line” and what it has meant in her own life.
A Piercing Wail
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: Reckoning by V (formerly Eve Ensler) asks readers to understand what violence does to women and anyone who is marginalized.
