Five Bullets: The Story of Bernie Goetz, New York's Explosive '80s, and the Subway Vigilante Trial That Divided the NationFrom CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams, a revelatory account of how one man, four teenagers, and a struggling city collided over race, vigilantism, and public safety . . . exposing the fault lines of a nation On a dirty New York subway car on December 22, 1984, Bernhard Goetz shot Barry Allen, Darrell Cabey, Troy Canty, and James Ramseur, four teenagers from the Bronx, at point blank range. Goetz claimed they were going to mug him; the teens claim

a more expansive conception of motherhood

a music lover finds herself in a timeline both familiar and as wrong as can be

one of America’s foremost poets

as told through the lively voices of the people who built it

Delany and feminist Joanna Russ

and every person is considered a Mother to all children

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whose husband Shib is a retired executive and whose son has gone to live in America

this is an engrossing read and a serious contribution to the genres of gay and literary memoir

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served as the first director of the Literature Program at the National Endowment for the Arts

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