What Happened When an Ohio Megachurch Decided to Tackle Racism

In “Undivided,” the political scientist Hahrie Han follows members of a mostly white congregation that resolved to fight bias and promote racial justice.

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6 New Paperbacks to Read This Week

Including titles by Brando Skyhorse, Barack Obama, Costica Bradatan and more.

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From Harlem to Selma to Paris, James Baldwin’s Life in Pictures

An exploration of the long arc of Baldwin’s career, on what would have been the 100th birthday of the author of “Giovanni’s Room” and “The Fire Next Time.”

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6 Paperbacks to Read This Week

Recommended reading from the Book Review, including titles by Geraldine Brooks, Jefferson Cowie, Parini Shroff and more.

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

A new volume of the Black feminist’s previously unpublished writing is read in audiobook form by a full cast of Black women.

Omari Weekes | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

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

“Our Migrant Souls,” the author’s first nonfiction book in nearly a decade, is a deeply personal meditation on Latino American experience.

BY FRANCISCO CANTÚ | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

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

The case, involving Scholastic, led to an outcry among authors and became an example of how the culture wars behind a surge in book banning in schools has reached publishers.

BY ALEXANDRA ALTER AND ELIZABETH A. HARRIS | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

When Jim Crow Violence Came to a Small New York Village

BY JENNIFER SZALAI | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

The Uneasy Alliance Between Frederick Douglass and White Abolitionists

BY WILLIAM G. THOMAS III | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Antagonist, Activist, Operator, Survivor

BY WALTER JOHNSON | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Bernardine Evaristo Recalls a Life on the Outside

BY QUIARA ALEGRÍA HUDES | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

The Decade That Changed America Forever

BY JAMES A. MORONE | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

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

BY ZAID JILANI | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

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

BY NEIL GENZLINGER | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

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

BY HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

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

BY ANTWAUN SARGENT | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

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

BY JOE KLEIN | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

The Coming ‘Tsunami’ of Books on Race

BY ELIZABETH A. HARRIS | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

Colson Whitehead Reinvents Himself, Again

BY ALEXANDRA ALTER | NYTimes Books | Disclosure

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

BY LINDA VILLAROSA | NYTimes Books | Disclosure