In post-Civil War New Orleans, Creole leaders won elections and oversaw the desegregation of public schools, a short-lived experiment destroyed after Reconstruction.

The robotic narrator of Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel takes us into a dystopian U.S. future.

Douglas Stuart’s novel is an appropriate winner of the Booker Prize for the desolate year in which March seems never to have ended.

The veteran novelist has an esteemed track record of finely crafted stories that explore the human propensity to sow injury rather than beneficence.

In the poems of 'Delta Tears,' Philip Kolin blends ecotheology and Scripture with pleas for social justice.

Julius Margolin's memoir of his time in the gulag tells his experiences through a shattering series of stories.