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Anita Gonzalez’s profile on The Conversation

Wesley Morris and Hanif Abdurraqib consider what’s lost when you breeze past the TV theme song.

Part 2 of John Jobs guest column on the 2022 Big Ears Festival in Knoxville.

Among the nominated works are a novel inspired by one of the first, black, female doctors in the United States and a biography of DH Lawrence.

Among the nominated works are a novel inspired by one of the first, black, female doctors in the United States and a biography of DH Lawrence.

Among the nominated works are a novel inspired by one of the first, black, female doctors in the United States and a biography of DH Lawrence.

Greg Tate was part of a powerful tradition of Black criticism. Its inheritor is Hanif Abdurraqib.

Six new paperbacks to check out this week.

In this encore broadcast of a March 2021 conversation, host Lauren Korn and poet-essayist Paisley Rekdal, author of ‘Appropriate: A Provocation,’ dive into the nuances of cultural appropriation in literature. What is the difference between depicting a character unlike one’s self and appropriating their culture and identity? What is the difference between one’s politics and one’s ethics?

Kira Bingemann, adult programming and reference librarian at the David & Joyce Milne Public Library in Williamstown, is helping us out by sharing a few must-read titles to honor Black