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“And here’s what’s really good,” continued Belinda. “The publishing industry has a hard time processing Black characters unless we’re suffering.” Nods and murmurs from the audience. “We’re expected to write about trauma, oppression, or slavery, because those are easily marketable Black tropes. Publishers struggle to see us as having the same banal,

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Saxophonist Marshall Allen has been the leader of one of the most important groups in jazz, the Sun Ra Arkestra , since 1995—two years after its visionary founder’s death. It’s fair to give Allen a pass on waiting this long to release his first collection of original compositions given the Arkestra’s steady tour schedule and prolific studio output.... See more

Marlowe’s already here, standing on the grass. Wearing his hat and his long grey raincoat, even in this hot weather. He updates his wardrobe once every hundred years or so. It used to be doublets and pantaloons. Then it became tailcoats and powdered wigs. Since the First World War it’s been brogues, briefcase, three-piece suit. Now he’s smoking a c

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