Criticism

Non-essential Knowledge: Latinx Studies in Times of Covid-19

Writing at the turn of the twentieth century, Arthur Schomburg, the black Puerto Rican scholar…

Review: Niloufar Talebi’s Self-Portrait in Bloom: Translation and Power

My country Iran has been in the U.S. news for decades. The American news whipsaws…

“how to run / out of our own flesh—”: A Review of Grace Shuyi Liew’s Careen

Writing about the musician Mitski, Jia Tolentino argues that, “there is a notion, informed by…

Expanding the Waters of Love: A Review of Shayla Lawson’s I Think I’m Ready To See Frank Ocean

“Of course, when I say, ‘Ocean’ I am thinking of myself —how every time I…

On Dream Houses and Ex-Girlfriends

I read Carmen Maria Machado’s new memoir In the Dream House in a day. It’s…

Microeditorial: Harriet, Black Women Gather

Harriet is cinematic church. This weekend, Black women gathered in a Tampa theater reciting spirituals,…

Microeditorial: A meditation on possibility in academia

There is no secret about the way in which white nationalism and white supremacy permeate…

Microeditorial: First Purge, A Movie and Country Divided

The First Purge is the Black Panther of Wu-Tang Clan land. In the Black-directed prequel,…

Microeditorial: For Kanye, Resistance across the Americas

Zora Neale Hurston has an often discussed 1928 essay “How it Feels to be Colored…

Microeditorial: Impossibilty of Redemption/ Justice and Possibilty

I come from a place in which I was taught that you don’t meet violence…