Jenny Colgan

Ritualistic murder in 1920s America: Cahokia Jazz, by Francis Spufford, reviewed

When the mutilated corpse of a Ku Klux Klan member is discovered, the stability of an entire city is threatened in this tale of racial tension set beside the Mississippi

A still from Birth of a Nation (Getty Images)

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