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6 Paperbacks to Read This Week

Listen to Ntozake Shange Like You’ve Never Heard Her Before

Who or What Is ‘Latino’? Héctor Tobar Considers a Term’s Many Meanings

Asked to Delete References to Racism From Her Book, an Author Refused

When Jim Crow Violence Came to a Small New York Village

The Uneasy Alliance Between Frederick Douglass and White Abolitionists

Antagonist, Activist, Operator, Survivor

Bernardine Evaristo Recalls a Life on the Outside

The Decade That Changed America Forever

John McWhorter Argues That Antiracism Has Become a Religion of the Left

Jerry Pinkney, Acclaimed Children’s Book Illustrator, Dies at 81

Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Literary Freedom as an Essential Human Right

Esi Edugyan Revives Black Stories, to Move the Margin Into the Center

Joe Klein Explains How the History of Four Centuries Ago Still Shapes American Culture and Politics

The Coming ‘Tsunami’ of Books on Race

Colson Whitehead Reinvents Himself, Again

Dawn Turner Looks Back on Her ’70s Girlhood, and Those Who Got Left Behind

In Literary Organizations, Diversity Disputes Keep Coming

Floyd Cooper, Illustrator of Black Life for Children, Dies at 65

Jamia Wilson’s Inclusive Guide Is ‘Not Your Mama’s Feminism’