Books

The gift that never disappoints a book lover, another book. Literary experts give their top recommendations and holiday gift ideas.

The prolific author, poet, cultural critic, feminist and professor, who wrote more than three dozen wide-ranging books, died Wednesday at her home in Berea, Ky.

The novel “Hell of a Book” went from a publisher’s discard pile a decade ago to National Book Award winner this week. All Sides Weekend: Books host Christopher Purdy and guests discuss the National Book Award winners and offer other reading recommendations.

Between October 2017 and February 2020, educator, poet and Atlantic staff writer Clint Smith visited nine places in the U.S. and abroad where, as he puts it, “the story of slavery in America lives on.” We talk with Smith about his new book, How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America.

The civil rights movement and our modern economic freedoms are largely the function of the most famous dissenter on the Supreme Court. We talk with the author of a new biography of Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan.

Eunice Hunton Carter, a Black attorney, established the critical link that secured a conviction against mob boss Lucky Luciano in 1936.. We talk with the co-author of a new book that chronicles Carter’s life and legal career.

Eunice Hunton Carter, a Black attorney, established the critical link that secured a conviction against mob boss Lucky Luciano in 1936.. We talk with the co-author of a new book that chronicles Carter’s life and legal career.

See what’s coming from books publishers this fall on All Sides Weekend: Books with Christopher Purdy.

The civil rights movement and our modern economic freedoms are largely the function of the most famous dissenter on the Supreme Court. We talk with the author of a new biography of Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan.

The civil rights movement and our modern economic freedoms are largely the function of the most famous dissenter on the Supreme Court. We talk with the author of a new biography of Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan.