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One of the year’s best and most relevant features, I Am Not Your Negro was just voted Best Documentary/Non-Fiction by the L.A. Film Critics Association. When director Raoul Peck first met Gloria Karefa-Smart, James Baldwin’s sister and executor of the...

Barn Burning English Literature and Literary Analysis William Faulkner’s Barn Burning and A Rose for Emily – “Barn Burning” is a story filled with myth. This coming of age story features a boy stuck in a family with a father who can be thought of as...

Keith P. Feldman, A Shadow over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race in America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. In July 2014, at the height of the most recent Israeli military assault upon Gaza, a major rally was held in New York...

Few have articulated America’s ongoing struggles with race better than the African-American writer and social critic James Baldwin. “We carry our history with us,” he said. He wanted to make certain we understood that. A gay man, he fled the racism...

From our overstocked archives In 1997, WW Norton published my book the Great American Repair Manual, a title that, sixteen years later, seems overly optimistic. Repair is no longer enough. Today, America needs to be rebuilt. Here are some ways we could...