Farmer Michael Carter Jr. talks about his new book “Africulture” and how Africans and their descendants made American agriculture.

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The chickens

Join John Kokoris on Route 66 for its 100th anniversary — cool towns, great food, and rich history along the Mother Road.

We'll study the conventions of the gothic story, look at modern ghost stories by writers like Brian Evenson and Carmen Maria Machado and others.

Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Through the “revelatory...

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A chance disappearance leads to a botched bank heist now decades old and yesteryear's festering grudges that come roaring back. Detective Novel is like Raymond Chandler crossed with Kafka mixed with M...

“I think there’s something moving down there” You couldn’t tell there were three of them at first, not until they had almost cleared the courthouse and started towards the post office. The first o...

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The midday sun filters through blinds and dust motes as I walk into the empty fencing salle. The noise from the city streets melts into the creak of polished wood and the high- pitched hum of the over...