On the 25th anniversary of the most controversial historical novel in memory, the author of The Confessions of Nat Turner speaks of a novelist’s duty to history and fiction’s strange power not only to astonish, but to enrage.
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An extraordinary new historical novel begins with the great political scandal of the 1970s, then visits the great political scandal of the 1820s.
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Starting with a single, haunting battlefield image, an amateur photo detective managed to reconstruct a forgotten photographer’s life and uncover a treasure of Indian portraits.
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