
Harlem is Nowhere
Excerpt from Sharifa Rhodes Pitts‘ memoir of the black metropolis, “Harlem is Nowhere,” which came out
Excerpt from Sharifa Rhodes Pitts‘ memoir of the black metropolis, “Harlem is Nowhere,” which came out
Not sure whether Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa’s new novel, El Sueño del Celta (The Dream
Journalists in South Africa are picking up on how the film, "The Bang Bang Club," treats some of the Bang Bang Club's black colleagues. And other Weekend Specials.
The leftist and poet Jeremy Cronin speaks on identity politics and race in South Africa's second city, Cape Town.
"As long as we think that we should get Mississippi straightened out before we worry about the Congo, you’ll never get Mississippi straightened out."
From that same interview that I have been so liberally cutting and pasting from this week—in
More from that 2008 Comparative Literature interview with my favorite Communist poet, Jeremy Cronin. Bua Komanisi:
The daily word of inspiration (cut and pasted from Contemporary Literature) from my favorite, comtemporary Communist,
An interview with Rich Blint, a James Baldwin scholar. Biggest takeaway: Baldwin lamented the fragile human impulse for categorization.
Over the course of fifteen years (1994-2009), Elke Zuern has interviewed civic and social movement leaders,
By 1964, Dollar Brand (later Abdullah Ibrahim) had already made 3 LP's as a bandleader. He was living in Switzerland and had just gotten a boost from Duke Ellington.
Timothy Burke, Swarthmore history professor–he’s written a book on commodity culture in Zimbabwe–and blogger, has a
In Cape Town this January, Ken Salo invited Jessica and I to presentations by summer abroad
[vodpod id=Video.5972910&w=500&h=411&fv=videoId%3D897337827001%26amp%3BlinkBaseURL%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.newyorker.com%252Fvideo%253FvideoID%253D897337827001%26amp%3BplayerID%3D673564960001%26amp%3BplayerKey%3DAQ%7E%7E%2CAAAAAF1454s%7E%2CQH_ygumSKiVg91q-ZwBlqWe1HcfbhDds%26amp%3Bdomain%3Dembed%26amp%3BdynamicStreaming%3Dtrue] Writer Teju Cole— he has a new novel, “Open City”–talks and writes about identity
Although it was only launched a year ago, Cape Town-based Badilisha Poetry Radio is rapidly building
Few intellectuals have changed the world in such practical ways.
I received my copy of this year’s Commonwealth Prize winner Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love in
Our man Teju Cole’s novel “Open City,” set in post-9/11 New York City, is doing better
Last year, Chris Abani introduced Ghana-born writer and poet Kwame Dawes (who spent most of his