On the aesthetics, performance, and “majestic wrath” of Frederick Douglass, the most-photographed American of the nineteenth century.
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Looking for Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles
Tracing Raymond Chandler’s early days in L.A.
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The Politics of Poetry
The New York Times’s poetry columnist on the intersection between poetry and politics.
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The Radical Pessimism of Dashiell Hammett
The stories of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler once wrote, “gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse.”
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By the Reflection of What Is
On the aesthetics, performance, and “majestic wrath” of Frederick Douglass, the most-photographed American of the nineteenth century.
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The Skin I’m In: Stories By Writers of Color
I wanted to share these stories about love and music and beauty and family.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction
The Politics of Poetry
The New York Times’s poetry columnist on the intersection between poetry and politics.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
The Skin I’m In: Stories By Writers of Color
I wanted to share these stories about love and music and beauty and family.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
Four Stories About Disordered Eating
(TW: eating disorders, weight loss, body image.)
Posted inBooks, First Chapters, Nonfiction, Story
Yonkers, Housing Desegregation and the Youngest Mayor in America
The true story behind the HBO miniseries “Show Me a Hero.”
