Q&A | Chapter 16

Europe’s Bloody Borderlands

Timothy Snyder talks with Chapter 16 about the peoples and territories trapped between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia during the 1930s and 1940s

By Tim Boyd | January 27, 2023

FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: In the bestselling Bloodlands, which has been critically acclaimed and widely translated, Timothy Snyder argues that the systematic killings in the Nazi death camps were part of the same arc of violence as the mass starving inflicted on Ukraine by the Soviets in the 1930s and the extra-legal killings perpetrated by Germans and Russians alike during their occupation of Poland, Ukraine, and the Baltic States.

Overcoming the Divide

David Dark is still questioning everything

By Maria Browning | January 4, 2023

Nashville writer David Dark has revisited his 2016 book, Life’s Too Short to Pretend You’re Not Religious, creating a “reframed and expanded” new edition. He’ll appear at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on January 7.

Souled Out

Thomas Healy chronicles the creation of a planned Black city in 1970s North Carolina

By Aram Goudsouzian | November 10, 2022

In Soul City, Thomas Healy tells the epic, tragic, and potent story of founding a new, Black-oriented community in 1970s North Carolina. Healy will discuss Soul City at a virtual event held on Facebook Live, on the page of the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change, on November 15.

Rye Wit

Clay Risen talks about death, history, and the rebirth of America’s first spirit

By Michael Ray Taylor | November 7, 2022

Clay Risen’s American Rye presents a comprehensive guide to a uniquely American spirit. As with his previous books on bourbon and scotch, Risen explains the evolution and making of rye whiskey before offering reviews and tasting notes on 225 contemporary expressions of the spirit.

Power to Harm and to Heal

A veteran religion writer considers the changing church

By David Dark | November 3, 2022

In Reorganized Religion, journalist Bob Smietana examines the evolution of America’s Christian institutions.

History in the Making

Poet Alora Young makes a triumphant debut with Walking Gentry Home

By Erica Ciccarone | October 20, 2022

In Walking Gentry Home, poet Alora Young crafts a family history from the stories passed down through generations.

The Call to Serve: The Life of an American President, George Herbert Walker Bush: A Visual Biography

Jon Meacham
Random House
384
$45

“Lavishly illustrated, ‘The Call to Serve’ is an intimate, illuminating portrait of the forty-first president, a man who was so much more than just his politics. In words and images—many found in a lifetime of scrapbooks kept by Barbara Pierce Bush—Jon Meacham brings George H. W. Bush vividly to life.”

~the publisher