Why We Needed A New History Of The United States
(ArtsJournal)

Jill Lepore has surmised, is that too much historical writing-and perhaps too much nonfiction in general-proceeds without many of the qualities that readers recognize as essential to experience: `humor, and art, and passion, and love, and tenderness, and sex... and fear, and terror, and the sublime, and cruelty.` Things that she calls `organic to the […]