Activists and politicians have long recognized the power of a good story to move people to action. In early 1960 four black college students sat down at a white

“A wonderful nightmare of a book: tender and frightening, disturbing but compassionate. Fever Dream is a triumph of Schweblin’s outlandish imagination.” �

An account of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic documents how it killed more than 18,000 people in the American South, tracing its particularly catastrophic impact

"Thirty-nine essays devoted to a wide range of literary and cultural subjects, from poetry to painting to rock music" --

The panic unleashed by a mysterious contagion threatens the bonds of family and community in a seemingly idyllic suburban community in this "engrossing, disturb