I began my relationship with Drake when I was living out of a suitcase, rebuilding myself from the ground up after the unwinding of my first adult relationship…
Sheer Enthusiasm: Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith
The Stoic Philosopher of the Lockup
SOLITARY
Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement. My Story of Transformation and Hope.
By Albert Woodfox
Does Our Cultural Obsession With Safety Spell the Downfall of Democracy?
THE SPLINTERING OF THE AMERICAN MIND
Identity Politics, Inequality, and Community on Today’s College Campuses
By William Egginton
THE CODDLING OF THE AMERICAN MIND
How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
By Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Fried Fish: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Liberation Struggle: Chester B. Himes: A Biography, by Lawrence P. Jackson. W. W.
A Blues for Albert Murray
His name was never household familiar. Yet his complex, mind-opening analysis of art and life remains as timely as ever—probably more so.
Breaking Into James Baldwin’s House
Loaded Dice: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Despite the hype, Beyoncé isn’t saying anything radical
She's not the Nina Simone of her generation
Can 48 Artists in 14 Rooms Capture Michael Jackson?
Paris When It Sizzles
Master of Fortune
Kehinde Wiley: Lamentation
Petit Palais, Paris
October 20, 2016 – January 15, 2017
Kerry James Marshall: Mastry
Met Breuer, New York
October 25, 2016 – January 29, 2017
Where does race fit in the construction of modern identity?
What It Was Like Living Inside a Week of Fear and Tension in Paris
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks that shocked the world, the city is recovering—but slowly, in a fog of suspicion and worry.
How Paris Is Recovering from the 'Charlie Hebdo' Attacks
A usually quiet city was jarred by sudden violence, and in the aftermath many are wondering what can be done to prevent another tragedy.
Oxford American
MY PASTICHE OR YOURS?
Stefan Zweig’s 1942 novella, Chess Story, set on a steamer headed from New York to Buenos Aires, recounts the tale of a Viennese lawyer, Dr. B., who had been imprisoned by Nazis and subjected to an extreme form of mental violence. Held in a hotel room in total isolation for one year, with nothing to distract himself—no pens, paper, cigarettes or even a wristwatch to mark the days—he was thrust into “a completely timeless and dimensionless void.” …
A Novelist's Glittering Afterlife
Roberto Bolaño's tossed-away writings outshine most authors' finished work. Thomas Chatterton Williams reviews "Woes of the True Policeman."
Book Review: 'A Dreadful Deceit,' by Jacqueline Jones
For attempting to escape, a Maryland slave was flogged, burned with hot lard and finally asphyxiated. His owner was acquitted.
The State Of Race
Pooling interviews with 105 influential thinkers, including Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Malcolm Gladwell, "Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?" tackles what it means to be Black in America today. Thomas Chatterton Williams reviews.
Dark Thoughts in City of Light
In "Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down," Rosecrans Baldwin describes his 18 months of living and working in Paris. It wasn't quite the expat experience of Hemingway or A.J. Liebling.
Home Thoughts From Abroad
A black writer sets out to discover where, if anywhere, African-Americans might feel at home.