11 Historical Novels About Women Misbehaving and Making History
Kate Manning, author of "Gilded Mountain", recommends books about women who challenge authority and defied gender norms
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My Family History Isn’t the Ming Dynasty
"Family Time," a graphic narrative by Kat Y Tang
Oct 10 2022 - Kat Y Tang
I Can’t Separate America’s Mass Shootings From Its Long History of Racial Terrorism
White America is impotent and vengeance is served in Percival Everett’s "The Trees"
Oct 4 2022 - Norrell Edwards
8 Books That Investigate Family History with Imagination
Juliet Patterson, author of "Sinkhole," recommends books that use ancestry as a lens to ask bigger questions about the world
Sep 14 2022 - Juliet Patterson
Writing My Community’s History Helps Me Chart Our Better, Brighter Future
I was told we were nowhere in the past; now queer people are everywhere in the present
Sep 12 2022 - Hugh Ryan
If Your History Is Full of Holes, How Do You Fill in the Blanks?
The characters in Belinda Huijuan Tang's novel confront the difficulty of defining home by the parts of it that are missing
Aug 9 2022 - Elyse Martin
A Graphic Novel About 100 Years of Matrilineal Family History, From South China to Singapore
Weng Pixin on reimagining the lives of five generations of her female ancestors in "Let’s Not Talk Anymore"
Nov 4 2021 - Samantha Cheh
A Burmese American Family History That Weaves Legacy, Mythology, and Ghosts
Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint, author of "Names for Light," on writing an experimental memoir about what binds a family together
Aug 26 2021 - Raksha Vasudevan
A New Graphic Novel Shows the History of the Black Panther Party
Even those who know about the movement will learn something new—and see how the past repeats itself
Jan 19 2021 - Jennifer Baker
A Cultural History of Racial Fraud
From my great-grandfather to "Black Like Me" to Jessica Krug, what it means to perform race for a white audience
