The Troubles in Northern Ireland were fought mainly by children—young men and women from Northern Ireland and young British soldiers from other parts of the United Kingdom.

Over the course of the mid-to-late 20th century, notions of social justice went very, very wrong.

Rejecting the implications of the label “minority,” Carrie Gibson tells the entire 500-year history of Spanish-speaking peoples in what is now the United States.

‘Who else has written so keenly and movingly about hope, evil, endurance, pain, greed, transcendence, all the things that make us human?’

Morrison’s work conveyed the pain, sacrifice and trauma that exemplifies so much of the African-American experience.

A detective story is not what we have come to expect from Russo, who generally operates at the same, easy-going speed as his male protagonists.