Perry took on misconceptions about the South (and won the National Book Award) with “South to America.” In “Black in Blues” she continues to challenge perceptions, using the color blue to examine notions of Blackness.
After President Trump put in new leadership at the National Archives, the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library in Atlanta abruptly canceled several events.
The novelist discusses his career and his recent essay about cadavers in crime fiction, and the actor Richard E. Grant talks about his memoir and his love of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”
She has become known as an Ibsen whisperer, bringing “An Enemy of the People” to Broadway this spring, along with a play of her own, which stars Rachel McAdams.