Trepidation Is Big Business
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: This review originally appeared on January 22, 2024. The post has been updated with new event information. *** For years Jonathan Metzl and other public…
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: This review originally appeared on January 22, 2024. The post has been updated with new event information. *** For years Jonathan Metzl and other public…
Back in the early weeks of the 2020 summer, with the pandemic raging and the nation reeling through the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder, I hunkered down in my apartment…
Wright Thompson’s latest book, The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi, revisits what is often considered the most galvanizing event of the civil rights era: the 1955…
Sorry, but there is no way to tell you about Alice Driver’s Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company without disgusting you….
…be released this month by Vanderbilt University Press. Reading this posthumous memoir is a lot like experiencing Strobel in person. His stories welcome you into his life. He’s always a…
Bingo Cemetery, Green Mountains, Vermont A graveyard marks the trailhead we take almost daily in all weather. More often than not, on one of the graves a bouquet of fresh…