Thanks so much @davidgrann.bsky.social

A belated but huge congratulations to @calebgayle.bsky.social for the release of his superb work of history, which was longlisted for the National Bool Award!

Journalist @calebgayle.bsky.social joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss his new book Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/caleb-gayle-...

Journalist @calebgayle.bsky.social’s new book "Black Moses" made the Longlist for the National Book Award. When @jennaschnuer.bsky.social caught up with Gayle for DEPTH PERCEPTION last month, Gayle shared how he collaborated with historians on the book.

🎉Today we're celebrating two Riverhead titles on the @nationalbook.bsky.social Nonfiction Longlist! 🎉 CONGRATULATIONS to @calebgayle.bsky.social and Jordan Thomas on this recognition of their incredible and important books!!!

Still can’t believe it

Congratulations, @calebgayle.bsky.social!!! BLACK MOSES is a contender for the National Book Award in Nonfiction!!! @nationalbook.bsky.social @riverheadbooks.bsky.social www.nationalbook.org/2025-nationa...

Journalist @calebgayle.bsky.social’s new book is his first major work relying on nothing but the historical record and — he emphasizes — collaboration with historians. His hope is that "there's greater mind share, skill sharing, content sharing" between journalists and historians in the future.

"Reformers like Elizabeth Rous Comstock were not animated by conquest, but earnest—and complicated—charity towards Black migrants." Awesome piece by Caleb Gayle @calebgayle.bsky.social in Christianity Today; and excited about his new book, Black Moses 📚 www.christianitytoday.com/2025/08/chri...

In his new book, "Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State," journalist @calebgayle.bsky.social ‪continues his exploration of murky histories, reporting a story that doesn't have straightforward heroes or villains.

Congrats @calebgayle.bsky.social on getting a book reviewed by The New York Times! Check it out here: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/b...

"Today, with the White House attempting to control discussion of African American history...BLACK MOSES is a useful reminder that for nearly a century after the Civil War, what was called democracy was indistinguishable from white power." @calebgayle.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/b...

Dream of a lifetime to have Greg Grandin call my work timely and useful. Raves like this come so seldom that you have to treasure it!

Caleb Gayle will present “Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State” on Saturday, September 27th! 📚 @calebgayle.bsky.social

@calebgayle.bsky.social's new book is out this week! Join us on Nov. 19 at 7pm for a book talk and signing with the author: camd.northeastern.edu/events/book-...

BLACK MOSES @calebgayle.bsky.social, excerpted this week in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social: "It is the story of trying, why we cannot stop trying, and why being able to try is worth remembering at all." @riverheadbooks.bsky.social www.smithsonianmag.com/history/this...

"[T]he moral decisions we must make [today] haven’t gotten easier. Who we detain, whose histories we erase, which freedoms we underfund.... The difference now is that there’s no Kansas to send our convictions to." @calebgayle.bsky.social @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/10/o...

@hamiltoncain.bsky.social calls BLACK MOSES @calebgayle.bsky.social "eloquent" & "engrossing." "Gayle does more than just rescue a forgotten yet crucial figure; he places McCabe at the center of radical liberation." @riverheadbooks.bsky.social @startribune.com www.startribune.com/edward-mccab...

Tx to @therootdotcom.bsky.social for featuring BLACK MOSES @calebgayle.bsky.social in its August Books round-up! @riverheadbooks.bsky.social @thegernertco.bsky.social www.theroot.com/august-2025-...

Love seeing Caleb Gayle's superb BLACK MOSES (Riverhead, Aug 12) on this list! @nytimes.com @calebgayle.bsky.social @riverheadbooks.bsky.social @thegernertco.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/b...

I have a new piece out today in @theguardian.com on Rev. William Barber and the moral movement: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Gotta love a STARRED review from the fine folks at @publisherswkly.bsky.social. Can’t wait for you all to get your hands on this new one

Wrote about Jane Austen, family, and faith for the @parisreview.bsky.social. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/06...

I wrote about this last year and it seems like this outcome could’ve been predicted long ago www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/m...

For more on this, read a story from December by my colleague @calebgayle.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/m...

Listening to today’s oral arguments at SCOTUS about church and state and publicly funding religious schools felt like Deja vu until I remembered that I wrote a story predicting today’s arguments and gave the long backstory that got us here in @nytimes.com last year www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/m...

At the top of my reading list: @calebgayle.bsky.social's forthcoming BLACK MOSES, about a 19th-century Black visionary who dreamed of a state governed by and for Black people. It's my favorite kind of story--a buried history of resistance and possibility. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717975...

Shoutout to @pamelacolloff.bsky.social letting. Y’all know that my latest is atop her reading list and is available for preorders here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717975...

💪🏿💪🏿 love seeing my story make the rounds @phillewis.bsky.social

Thanks for reading and sharing @phillewis.bsky.social

Check out my latest in @theatlantic.com!

In my latest for @theatlantic.com, I write about the country’s oldest Black rodeo and its hopes of saving the all-Black towns that helped to make the American West www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

In my latest for @nytimes.com magazine, I investigate the coordinated effort to undo the separation between church and state. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/m...