A new biography of James Baldwin views his literary achievement through the prism of his various love affairs
Boggs is also adept at illustrating how far ahead of his time Baldwin was.
Trying to learn how to walk like heroes: Peter Ames Carlin’s new book is a deep dive into the making of Bruce Springsteen’s breakout album
There is no doubting the accomplishment of that record, just as there was no question in anyone's mind how important it was at the time.
Eighty years after the bombing of Hiroshima, John Hersey’s indelible journalistic excavation has things to teach us
Hiroshima has been considered a forerunner of the New Journalism that flourished in the 1960s.
Simon & Schuster to publish memoir by Kamala Harris in September
S&S is no stranger to publishing major political books across both sides of the aisle in the U.S.
Fox, the latest novel from Joyce Carol Oates, is a whodunit combined with a psychological dissection of an abhorrent character
Oates has generally carved a bifurcated path in her publication history.
Riding shotgun: Two disaffected teens take a road trip heading north and bad things happen in Vijay Khurana’s debut novel
The discontent and anomie of these characters practically seeps from their pores.
Dana A. Williams’s new book about Toni Morrison’s time at Random House shines a light – albeit a limited one – on an underexplored aspect of the writer’s career
The picture that emerges of Morrison as editor is of someone simultaneously dedicated to her authors and interested in helping them find wide audiences while also firm – not to say obstinate – in her opinion of her own editorial talent.
Extremely online: Two new novels explore the brutal nihilism of digital addiction and its effects
rekt tells much the same story as Feeders, but from a dude's perspective.
Poems of love and protest combine in Claude McKay’s piercingly relevant 2022 collection Harlem Shadows
These poems testify to the range of McKay's emotive field.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 29: “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison
The presentation of the technology in the story firmly situates it in the tech skeptic realm.