As Katie Rogers writes in “American Woman,” Jill Biden and other recent spouses are still locked in a role unlikely to change until the presidency does.
For three decades, the iconographer Mark Doox has explored anti-Blackness in America and in the church — work that has culminated in his book, “The N-Word of God.”
A German-born Jew who became a French writer and activist, he devoted his life to healing the divide between two historic enemies after the trauma of World War II.
Amitava Kumar’s novel links a professor who lived through a nation’s tribulations and his daughter, an Atlanta journalist, before and after the pandemic.