Before he wrote "How to Be an Antiracist," Ibram X. Kendi's "Stamped from the Beginning" examined the history of overt and covert bigotry
Octavia E. Butler's "Speech Sounds" got me through my father's death—now I turn to it in a time of national rebirth
"Parable of the Sower" isn't just a prescient dystopia—it's a monument to the wisdom of Black women and girls
As a stay-at-home dad I read this children's classic over and over, but I also felt shut out from its definition of success
The fantasy series offers a pioneering Black hero—and a model for how white people can decenter themselves
Lessons for current activists and allies from Nina Revoyr's 2003 literary crime novel "Southland"
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis's "The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas" is weird, funny, subversive, and undercelebrated in English
Albert Camus diagnosed society's disease in 1947, and it's much bigger than one virus
Marilynne Robinson’s novel shows how changing the country starts with changing yourself and the people closest to you
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