“The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels” by Isaac Butler and Dan Kois

Tony Kushner’s theatrical masterpiece, Angels in America, gets the book treatment with this detailed oral history, expanded from a 16,000-word piece that ran on Slate in 2016. When they stop by the Wharf, the authors—writer and theater director Isaac Butler and Slate staffer Dan Kois—will be well equipped to discuss the two-part play’s troubled beginning, remarkable cultural legacy, and much-anticipated return to Broadway.