A Fate Worse than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War
By W. Fitzhugh Brundage
A harrowing assessment of a savage penal system.
You Can’t Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads
By Brad Snyder
Why a 1930s Black activist could’ve gotten the chair.
Fagin the Thief
By Allison Epstein
A Dickens villain gets an identity beyond “the Jew.”
A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing: A Novel
By Alice Evelyn Yang
A family’s fantastical secret is rooted in China’s violent past.
The Library of Lost Maps: An Archive of a World in Progress
By James Cheshire
An exquisite homage to the charts that plot the way.








