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October 6, 2020
Critical Mass
Kierstan Carter
Claudia Rankine Has a Few Questions
In her new book, the poet decided to ask white people about their whiteness.
August 7, 2019
Timothy Yu
The Case of the “Disappearing” Poet
Why did a white poet see the success of writers of color as a signal of his own demise?
October 3, 2018
Jo Livingstone
An Opera for the City, an Opera for the Self
New York is the stage for the "Mile Long Opera," a breakthrough work of public art.
June 22, 2017
Magazine
Mychal Denzel Smith
A Grief Observed
From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin, the power and pain of black mourning.
March 22, 2017
Jo Livingstone
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Lovia Gyarkye
The Case Against Dana Schutz
Why her painting of Emmett Till at the Whitney Biennial insults his memory.
October 12, 2016
Alex Shephard
Is it Don DeLillo’s Year to Win the Nobel Prize?
There might not be a better time to recognize the accomplishments of the master chronicler of American dread.
November 23, 2015
Alex Shephard
Poetry could be one winner under a Trump presidency.
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