Readpolitik: With this sneaky, survival-focused narrator Aron, Jim Shepard elevates the ordinary and makes a necessary addition to the literature of the Holocaust.

Readpolitik: Paul Beatty’s The Sellout skewers the idea of “post-racial” society.

Readpolitik: When whimsy becomes a weapon.

A month on a Grand Jury reveals what happens when guns are cheap and easy to come by.