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James Baldwin, Malcolm X.
Bruce Springsteen • Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship (Goop Press)
extreme, exclusive, almost a one-man genre.
Martin Amis • The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 (Vintage International)
Two latest essay books:
was interested, as I had been for a long time, in the way black people ignite critical moments of discovery or change or emphasis in literature not written by them.
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
Men in automobiles often tried to hurt one with noise.
Andre Alexis • Fifteen Dogs
The black world was expanding before me, and I could see now that that world was more than a photonegative of that of the people who believe they are white.
Ta-Nehisi Coates • Between the World and Me
The fabrication of
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
“Firework,” “Only Girl (In the World,)” and “S&M”—