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Know My Name
Chanel Miller’s Know My Name begins with a woman who has lost herself and does not yet know how to say so. It opens in the aftermath of January 17, 2015, the night Miller was sexually assaulted behind a dumpster at a Stanford fraternity party by Brock Turner, a swimmer at the university. For three…
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
In October 1965, nine months after Malcolm X was shot and killed at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, Grove Press published the book he and journalist Alex Haley had spent two years building together. The Autobiography of Malcolm X is a conversion narrative told in stages: Malcolm Little the street hustler, Detroit Red the criminal,…
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Say Nothing
On the evening of December 7, 1972, a group of strangers came to the door of a Belfast apartment and took Jean McConville away. She was a thirty-eight-year-old widow with ten children, Protestant by birth but married into Catholicism, living in a neighborhood where she had never quite belonged. The IRA accused her of being…
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Endurance
Alfred Lansing’s Endurance, first published in 1959, is the definitive account of one of the most extraordinary survival stories in the history of exploration. It follows the twenty-eight men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914, led by Irish-born polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, from the moment their ship became locked in the ice of…
