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Who Is…Nneka
Remember way back in the late '80s and early '90s, when artists w… more »
Nneka, Concrete Jungle…
For those of us awaiting a return of the golden age of women in hip-hop (… more »
Icon: Nina Simone
To say Nina Simone was “one of a kind” is an understatement. … more »
Ellen Ruppel Shell
How many of us have stopped in at Old Navy or Target on the way home from… more »
Jane Goodall & Thane May…
The woman who unlocked the secrets of the chimpanzees shares her more sub… more »
Ron Currie
For a purveyor of doom and gloom, Ron Currie Jr. is an awfully nice guy. … more »
Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, a…
A fascinating and essential book on the nature of human progress I didn… more »
Nick Hornby, Juliet, Naked…
The wry bard of male pop culture obsession returns to music For those Hig… more »
Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who P…
Larsson’s hard-boiled and offbeat Millennium trilogy ticks along wi… more »
Sam Cooke, One Night Stand …
1963, Miami, Florida — below the Mason Dixon line. Jim Crow was sti… more »
Ron Currie, Jr., Everything M…
Some of the weirdest and best apocalyptic fiction going from a twisty nar… more »
Haven Kimmel
Readers of Haven Kimmel’s bestselling memoir, A Girl Named Zippy, a… more »
Bob Spitz, The Beatles…
More than a biography — it’s the living word of the world… more »
Al Green, Call Me
Al Green's 1972 masterpiece Call Me might inspire some listeners to t… more »
Celebrate National Poetry Mon…
Poetry is an art form as much for the ear as the eye. Close in form to mu… more »
Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in …
One of the most wise and loving classics of children’s fiction I wo… more »
Black History Month
We all know why 2009′s Black History Month is different. With the f… more »
Christopher Hitchens, God Is …
The title says it all — a new classic of the polemical form Christo… more »
James Baldwin, The Fire Next …
An unflinching examination of black and white relations An unflinching ex… more »
Martin Luther King Jr. , Mart…
August 28, 1963. The end of a long, hot summer; the middle of a long, har… more »
D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterl…
Canonical literature, yes — but also a dirty book, and a still-subv… more »
Diane Ackerman, The Zookeeper…
At first, it seems like a too-weird-to-be-true, high-concept movie pitch:… more »
Stephen L. Carter, Palace Cou…
A whodunit that doubles as a fascinating overview of early-20th-century A… more »
Michael Eric Dyson, April 4, …
A survey of the state of black America forty years after King’s dea… more »





