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The Man Who Created the Trade Paperback

The Man Who Created the Trade Paperback

Michael Castleman on the Life and Times of Jason Epstein, Cofounder of “The New York Review of Books”

By Michael Castleman | July 18, 2024

In Honor of Duke Ellington: Here Are 15 Great Books About Jazz

In Honor of Duke Ellington: Here Are 15 Great Books About Jazz

Ed Simon Recommends Langston Hughes, Dorothy Baker, Geoff Dyer, and More

By Ed Simon | May 24, 2024

Respectability Be Damned: How the Harlem Renaissance Paved the Way for Art by Black Nonbelievers

Respectability Be Damned: How the Harlem Renaissance Paved the Way for Art by Black Nonbelievers

Anthony Pinn Explores How James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and Others Embraced a New Black Humanism

By Anthony B. Pinn | May 24, 2024

A Century of Greatness: The Best African American Literary Anthologies

A Century of Greatness: The Best African American Literary Anthologies

Kenton Rambsy Recommends the Best Black Writing

By Kenton Rambsy | April 11, 2022

Chris Hedges on Teaching Playwriting in Prison

Chris Hedges on Teaching Playwriting in Prison

Writing Exercises, Sincerity, and Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman

By Chris Hedges | October 21, 2021

Magnificent Obsession: On Black Humor and the Necessary Lessons I Learned as a Cartoonist

Magnificent Obsession: On Black Humor and the Necessary Lessons I Learned as a Cartoonist

Charles Johnson Recalls His Personal Journey from Unpublished Hopeful to Professional Artist and Celebrated Author

By Charles Johnson | June 24, 2021

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How Malcolm X Inspired John Coltrane to Embrace Islamic Spirituality

By Richard Brent Turner | May 4, 2021

Lorna Dee Cervantes on Allen Ginsberg and the Interplay Between Beat and
Chicano Poetry

By Lorna Dee Cervantes | December 21, 2020

Ntozake Shange on Sun Ra and How She Came to Have Her Name

By Ntozake Shange | November 23, 2020

Are We in the Middle of a Black Art Renaissance?

Are We in the Middle of a Black Art Renaissance?

A Spiritual Manifesto for the Global International African Arts Movement

By Patrick A. Howell and Mavin L. Mills | August 12, 2020

Amiri Baraka's Anti-Epic Poem About America's Destruction

Amiri Baraka's Anti-Epic Poem About America's Destruction

The Poet Was Accused of Antisemitism After Presenting "Somebody Blew Up America"

By Michael Leong | July 28, 2020

When LeRoi Jones Went on<br> <em>The Merv Griffin Show</em>

When LeRoi Jones Went on
The Merv Griffin Show

Introducing Harmony Holiday's Disappearing Archive Series

By Harmony Holiday | April 11, 2019

20 Notoriously Underrated Writers You Should Be Reading

20 Notoriously Underrated Writers You Should Be Reading

Yes, Even Nobel Prize-Winners Can Be Chronically Underappreciated

By Emily Temple | June 5, 2018

Your Pocket Guide to 10 Literary Movements

Your Pocket Guide to 10 Literary Movements

Never Again Will You Have Nothing to Say at a Literary Dinner Party

By Emily Temple | April 5, 2018

10 College Courses to Read Along With This Semester (From Your Couch)

10 College Courses to Read Along With This Semester (From Your Couch)

Object Lessons in Vicarious Reading

By Emily Temple | September 6, 2017

What Poetry Can Teach Us About Power

What Poetry Can Teach Us About Power

Political Poems Use Language in a Way Distinct from Rhetoric

By Matthew Zapruder | August 16, 2017

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