“As she bears witness to the sweeping corruption, dilapidated buildings and shameful legacy of Antigua’s colonial past, Kincaid compels us…
“In Palestine’s Children, each story involves a child—a child who is victimized by political events and circumstances, but who nevertheless…
“Why was AIDS allowed to spread unchecked during the early 1980s while our most trusted institutions ignored or denied the threat? In this…
Power explores a particularly American phenomenon in which journalists, advocates and US policymakers draw comparisons between contemporary…
“In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored…
“‘They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time.’ So begins Toni Morrison’s Paradise, which opens with a…
“Elizabeth Martinez’s unique Chicana voice arises from over 30 years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women’s liberation…
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“Set at a boys’ boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable…
“Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, an African-American girl in an America whose love for blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all…
“A multi-generational saga of the Sioux Indians, mixing magic and reality. Set in the Dakotas, it begins in the 1860s with the tragic…