In 'The Matter of Black Lives,' generations of Black thinkers probe American racism

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Two new murder mysteries cleverly explore the meta — in two very different ways

In Ilona Bannister’s Five, five strangers wait on a train platform. One will die in the next five minutes but only one person knows: the reader. In Anthony Horowitz’s A Deadly Episode, his real 2018 novel The Word is Murder becomes a fictional film adaptation with one problem: th ...  Show more

In 'Backtalker,' Kimberlé Crenshaw turns from political theory to personal memoir

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is a foundational legal scholar, theorist, and Civil Rights advocate, known for coining such significant and controversial terms as intersectionality and Critical Race Theory. But what — or who — inspired her work? Crenshaw examines just this in her new ...  Show more

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