
The book blurs time and reality until Oakley herself turns up in the present to narrate the events of her life.īLACK MAGIC: What Black Leaders Learned From Trauma and Triumph, by Chad Sanders. (Soho, $27.) This novel features a modern-day historian obsessed with the sharpshooter Annie Oakley and her possibly traumatic past.

(Norton, $20.) Nurse, a Nobel laureate in medicine and director of the Francis Crick Institute, walks readers through five essential components of life, from the cell to evolution by natural selection, in a guide that’s part textbook and part history of ideas.ĪNNIE AND THE WOLVES, by Andromeda Romano-Lax. WHAT IS LIFE? Five Great Ideas in Biology, by Paul Nurse. history from a Black perspective, starting with the arrival of the first slave ship. (One World, $32.) Ninety authors in various genres recast U.S.

FOUR HUNDRED SOULS: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, edited by Ibram X.
