A scion of wealth claimed self-defense and invoked a sinister blackmailing ring. But, James Polchin asks, what did they have…
Ward
Mary Augusta Ward’s “Lady Rose’s Daughter” was the blockbuster best seller of its day.
LET US DESCEND, by Jesmyn Ward After Annis, the enslaved teenage girl at the center of Jesmyn Ward’s new novel,…
Jesmyn Ward gestured with her eyes and a tilt of her face, hands on the wheel. “This crazy colored house…