Chabon and Waldman are donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are forgoing payment

and her Ivy League education and career in the white male-dominated field of anthropology

and the twists and leaps of Erdrich's imagination are made all the more meaningful by the deeper truth of human feeling that underlies them

and goading him into a destructive

Eldon offers his son a world the boy has never seen

Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad missing women Chabon and Waldman are donatingEmpire's Tracks boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes, and the Chinese migrants who toiled on its path. In this meticulously researched book, Manu Karuka situates the railroad within the violent global histories of colonialism and capitalism. Through an examination of legislative, military, and business records, Karuka deftly explains the imperial