Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Graywolf Press
Reviewed by Nicole Sealey
Nothing Could Be More Normal: A Review of and Meditation on Claudia Rankine’s Citizen Continue reading
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Citizen by Claudia Rankine: Review
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Best Books of 2014
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BEST BOOKS OF 2014
by Clarence V. Reynolds
Freelance editor and literary arbiter Clarence V. Reynolds reads five books per day, or was that per month. Continue reading
Best Books of 2011
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Color Me English: Migration and Belonging Before and After 9/11
By Caryl Phillips
The New Press
In this book of personal and critical essays, Caryl Phillips explores themes of cultural awareness and racial identity that are often at the center of his engaging fiction. Color Me English is a profound collection of previously written, Continue reading
Thomas Sayers Ellis: Interview
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by Penny Dickerson
Poet, essayist, and editor, Thomas Sayers Ellis is a literary threat. Harvard educated and a Brown University graduated; noted writer Elizabeth Alexander described him as, “One of our geniuses.” Continue reading