Tag: Kendrick Lamar

Should white critics cover black culture? Only if they’re able to own their whiteness.

The Pulitzer Prize-winner’s work always feels honest, as writers have found when they dive deep into his literary influences.

The social world, for all of its fundamental gifts — love, empathy, the lessons arguing provides — obscures the whole self, allowing each of us to mute what is harder to absorb about ourselves in a din of habit and distraction. When an artist breaks through that din, which seems to grow ever louder, she […]