It's time to learn the uncomfortable lessons of Harper Lee's "Go Set a Watchman"
How the two exhaustive personal chroniclers invite us in to their eternal "now"
Reading May Sarton's "Journal of a Solitude" in quarantine
In his novels about the seamier side of Harlem, Pharr aimed to show Black life without white observers
The first Bengali immigrants only made it with the help of Black Americans
Trying to understand Sinhala now feels like flexing a phantom limb
From slave narratives to Michelle Obama, Black women must be simultaneously self-disclosing and self-protective
Activist James Forman wrote and delivered a list of demands for restitution. We're still waiting.
They were exaggerated, moralistic, and sensationalized, but they meant I wasn't alone
Thank You!
