WILL SUCCESS SPOIL PIONEERTOWN?

A tiny outpost in the Mojave has become ground zero for a battle between lifestyle influencers and desert lifers.

AMERICAN DICTION

For 40 years, Percival Everett has been reinventing American literature. His latest novel, James, offers an alternate take on Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

BOHEMIAN BLACK LIFE, CIRCA 1974

Alison Mills Newman’s reissued novel, Francisco, describes the awakening of her 19-year-old self with intimacy and searing vitality.

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