FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from That’s How They Get You, edited by Damon Young

From the Thurber Prize-winning author of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker comes a pioneering collection of Black humor from some of the most acclaimed writers and performers at work today A critic explores the paradox of finding community in “the dozens” while grieving. A violent town ritual causes an all-too-familiar moral panic. An email thread

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Ocean Vuong’s The Emperor of Gladness

Oprah’s Book Club Pick  Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.   “Come in. But take off your shoes. My husband put down these floors.” The woman disappeared into the house. The boy hesitated, looking down the empty street. The

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The Fate of the Day Author Rick Atkinson Discusses George Washington and Personal Research Strategies

Rick Atkinson, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The British Are Coming, is renowned for vivid narratives of American military history. His latest book, The Fate of the Day, is the second volume of his acclaimed American Revolution trilogy. In this gripping installment, Atkinson chronicles the pivotal middle years of

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