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With Katabasis, acclaimed fantasy author R.F. Kuang puts her own hellish spin on dark academia. With Katabasis, acclaimed fantasy author R.F. Kuang puts her own hellish spin on dark academia. Sarah ...

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Though the Civil War is over when this novel opens, the threat of violence and the persistence of bigotry still loom over a Georgia town.

A civil-rights lawyer’s disturbing view of why young black men make up the majority of the more than two million people now in America’s prisons.

A professor of history at Harvard chronicles the historical journey of an embroidered cotton sack, beginning with the enslaved woman who gave it to her 9-year-old daughter in the 1850s.