Where is your nonfiction section please.
Book review: Highway of Tears, by Jessica McDiarmid (Amazon / Book Depository) The highway of tears is a lonesome road that runs across a lonesome land. The plight of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada has increasingly been in the spotlight of late, deservingly so. One relative of a victim quoted in journalist Jessica McDiarmid's Highway... Continue Reading →
Book review: Beneath a Ruthless Sun, by Gilbert King Amazon Gilbert King, 2013 Pulitzer winner for Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America, returns to the setting of that book: mid-20th century Florida and the intersection of justice and race relations, to tell a new story from the... Continue Reading →
Book review: Everything You Love Will Burn, by Vegas Tenold (Amazon / Book Depository) What had initially motivated my excursion into the world of white supremacy was curiosity about a brand of politics that seemed almost too outdated to be real - and one that I was surprised to find thriving throughout the country. Journalist... Continue Reading →
Book review: Notes from No Man's Land, by Eula Biss (Amazon / Book Depository) I discovered Eula Biss's confrontational but melodic, intelligent and analytical writing in the collection Tales of Two Americas. It's a great collection of essays, stories, and poems all dealing somehow with various aspects of American inequality. She contributed a piece about the concept of... Continue Reading →
Book review: Truevine, by Beth Macy (Amazon / Book Depository) Beth Macy, a former Roanoke Times journalist, first heard about the Muse brothers during her work at the paper in the 1980s. Their story was well-known, but not in much detail: the outline was that two albino African-American brothers were kidnapped by the circus and spent... Continue Reading →
Book review: We Were Eight Years in Power, by Ta-Nehisi Coates Ta-Nehisi Coates' latest, garnering buzz for being among the year's best, was a very hard book to read, but why wouldn't it be? History is ugly and current events surely aren't much better to look at. The book is structured chronologically by eight essays,... Continue Reading →
Book review: Alt-America, by David Neiwert Alt-America is an alternative universe that has a powerful resemblance to our own, except that it's Alt-America, the nation its residents have concocted and refigured in their imaginations. It is not the America where the rest of us live. In this other America suppositions take the place of facts,... Continue Reading →
Book review: God'll Cut You Down, by John Safran In this tornado of a book, Australian TV and radio personality John Safran chronicles his obsession with a Southern American murder case involving the death of a white supremacist at the hands of a young black man in Mississippi. That's the basic premise, but the paths that the... Continue Reading →
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