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“In Waiting, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author Ha Jin draws on his intimate knowledge of contemporary China to create a novel of…
The economy uncertain, education in decline, cities under siege, crime and poverty spiraling upward, international relations roiling: we…
“As we approach the twenty-first century, biracialism and biculturalism are becoming increasingly common. Skin color and place of birth are…
“‘They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time.’ So begins Toni Morrison’s Paradise, which opens with a…
“In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored…
“Elizabeth Martinez’s unique Chicana voice arises from over 30 years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women’s liberation…
“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…
“Drawing on biological examples, historical and sociological analyses, fiction, and biography, Élisabath Badinter offers a groundbreaking…