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Jelani Cobb stands at history’s breaking point, taking attendance. His new book, “Three or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here,” is less memoir than mirror, forcing America to confront the decade it tried to forget. “The real thread that unites the book is democracy and its challenges,” he says. “And the

History is often written by those who arrive late. Dr. Edda Fields-Black started where most accounts end—on the banks of South Carolina’s Combahee River, where Harriet Tubman commanded and led one of the boldest Civil War operations. In “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War,” Fields-Black—a Brownsville native

When novelist Fabienne Josaphat discusses storytelling, it feels more like an inheritance than an interview. “I grew up in a family of avid readers,” she says. “My grandfather nurtured me with oral storytelling, so I was constantly immersed in stories.” That immersion became her compass. By college, Josaphat knew writing was her calling. “I realized

Nnedi Okorafor writes as if summoning whole worlds into being, each one daring readers to confront the one they inhabit. When she speaks of “Who Fears Death,” she isn’t describing a single story but an evolving worldview. Set in a post-apocalyptic Africa torn by the Nuru’s domination of the Okeke, the novel explores devastation and