The Old Drift
... audacious ... an intimate, brainy, gleaming epic,...
The History of the United States According to Colson Whitehead
Since the publication of his first novel in 1999, Colson Whitehead has become one of the most lauded, prized, taught, and studied American novelists...
The African Lookbook: A Visual History of 100 Years of African Women
Rather than an exegesis, then, what McKinley offers...
Camp Over Tragedy: On Henry Van Dyke’s Farcical, Irreverent Novel of Black Gay Life in Mid-Century America
If you were a juvenile Black writer in America in the 1950s and early ’60s, it was generally expected that you would write about...
African Europeans
Among the private drawings of the great Renaissance...