Beth Piatote and Heather Cahoon say so much even when—and perhaps particularly when—they don’t translate terms from the Nez Perce and Salish languages.
Scholar John Edgar Wideman’s new book explores the story of Emmett Till’s father, Louis. The U.S. Army convicted the elder Till of rape and murder during World War II and hanged him; leaks about his story derailed attempts to successfully convict his son’s murderers. The book is available today via Scribner.
Beatty won the prestigious British literary prize for his novel “The Sellout,” a satire on race and class relations in a fictional Los Angeles neighborhood.
