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A Cure as Vast as the Violence

In the wake of the 2024 presidential election, celebrated writers Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith attempted what so many of us have struggled to do: process events that have unleashed an onslaught of dangers. As a response, Jones and Smith have assembled The People’s Project, which they describe as “a community in book form.”

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.

Going Nuclear

The South has the most nuclear reactors — and the most radioactive waste — of any region in the United States. Radioactive Dixie uncovers their fascinating, complicated history.

Overcoming Obstacles

The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, known as the “Six Triple Eight,” was a predominantly Black unit in the U.S. Women’s Army Corps (WAC) during World War II. Tonya Abari tells their heroic but underappreciated story in her latest picture book, The Six Triple Eight.

Many Visions of Liberation

Be Gay, Do Crime surveys the long history of queer defiance and resilience through a daily catalog of notable events and key figures. Zane McNeill, one of the book’s editors, answered questions from Chapter 16 about the research challenges of the project and how queer history can help the community hold on to joy.

‘The Healing Game of Art’

David Dark’s Everyday Apocalypse finds revelation — and possibilities for challenging empire — in many layers of human experience and expression. David Dark will appear at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on October 27 and Parnassus Books in Nashville on November 5.

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