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Across the centuries, writers, scholars, and storytellers have preserved and reimagined the histories of slavery and the long fight for freedom. The books below trace the lives of the enslaved and the emancipated, the fugitives and the free, the remembered and the forgotten. Together, they speak to...

Today, the Gotham Book Prize, an annual award first created in the early months of the pandemic to encourage and honor writing about New York City, announced the winners of its fifth-annual prize: Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York’s Greatest Borough by Ian Frazier...