This novel follows members of the Chippewa in the 1950s, as Congress weighs a bill to “emancipate” Indigenous people from their lands and their tribal affiliations.
Mason spent 15 years working on this collection of short fiction, with stories set in far-flung places like the Malay Archipelago, the outer limits of the atmosphere, an asylum on the edge of Rio de Janeiro.
The narrative, which centers on a professor of geology and paleobiology, his wife and their teenage daughter, plays with the concept of how readers can derive different meanings from a single work.
An account of the gay liberation movement before the Stonewall riots of 1969, “The Deviant’s War” explores the life and activism of Franklin Kameny, a Harvard-educated astronomer who fought the U.S.
Nelson’s narrative of how the Civil War unfolded in the West examines the conflict from the perspectives of nine historical figures from different backgrounds.
This biography, which also won the National Book Award for nonfiction, was a decades-long project; Les Payne died in 2018, leaving his daughter and principal researcher, Tamara, to finish the manuscript.
Stanley follows the daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno, who defies social convention to make a life for herself in 19th-century Japan — running away from her village after three divorces to live in Edo, the city that would become Tokyo.
This book tells the forgotten history of a coup against an elected multiracial government in North Carolina, tracing efforts by white supremacists to establish white rule in Wilmington while cinematically detailing the bloody assault on Black residents of the town.
Written by a journalist based in the American West, this story takes place on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, a place transformed by the Bakken oil boom.