Linda Williams Jackson talks with Chapter 16 about race, class, and courage
…easy answers, and Williams allows her young protagonist to explore the philosophical and practical sides of the issue. She lets her protagonist get furious at the world, and Rosa’s unvarnished…
Hampton Sides talks about Memphis, civil rights, and why some people think he’s a CIA agent
…racial cross-pollination. Yet suddenly, with the King assassination, Memphis became synonymous with backwards policies and racial martyrdom. Memphis is now a big, bustling international city, but in some ways, it…
Ben H. Winters creates an alternate history in which the Civil War never took place
…against American. Perhaps Appomattox wasn’t Appomattox, after all. But what if the Civil War had never happened, and the concepts behind place names—Appomattox, Gettysburg, Fort Sumter—had never existed? This counterfactual…
Omar El Akkad’s novel imagines a dystopia of partisan political divisions
…with the political narrative of this future, though it is collected here in the form of oral histories, Senate-hearing transcripts, and newspaper articles, which provide the historical context for his…
Ben Anderson chronicles a year in the Smokies
…Mountains National Park’s most rewarding back-country trails. In his new book, Smokies Chronicle, he chronicles the hikes he made on trails he already knew intimately from more than twenty years…
