By Tony Wolk
Notes on H. Rap Brown.
All in Nonfiction
Frantz Fanon
By Tony Wolk
Notes on Frantz Fanon.
Angela Davis
By Tony Wolk
Notes on Angela Davis.
Sam Greenlee
By Tony Wolk
Notes on Sam Greenlee.
Chester Himes
By Tony Wolk
Notes on Chester Himes.
Alex Haley
By Tony Wolk
Notes on Alex Haley.
John A. Williams
By Tony Wolk
Notes on John A. Williams.
Bobby Seale
By Tony Wolk
Notes on Bobby Seale.
Long Days, Cheap Ham Sandwiches
Propeller Q&A
Aaron Gilbreath on This Is and Everything We Don’t Know.
Very Clearly Visible
By Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin
After “for all mankind,” it was straight to work.
Hell Yes There is Intrigue and Legal Action in the Field of Calculatedly Generic Lantern Festivals
By Pete Tothero
Competing urban lantern festival companies are involved in litigation over who invented lantern festivals, which are not a thing.
Essentially Prisoners
By Sarah DeYoreo
On the morning of May 28, Sarah DeYoreo sent the following email to the 500-plus employees of Morrison Child & Family Services, where DeYoreo worked as a “milieu counselor” with unaccompanied immigrant children in Portland, Oregon.
Does a priest like God?
By Daneen Bergland & Wendy Bourgeois
A conversation about poetry, philosophy, the role of autobiography in criticism, and Wendy Bourgeois’s essay collection, The Devil Says Maybe I Like It.
Moments of Discovery
By Mary Rechner
Debra Gwartney talks about structure and self-awareness in her new memoir, I am a Stranger Here Myself.
In Praise of Ordinary Art
By Matt Hartman
If the essential challenge of criticism is to get others to see what you see in an object, the challenge today is to resist the critical landscape that shapes how we approach art in the first place.
To Sucker
By John Carr Walker
My father took the whole family suckering the spring I was eleven, my sister six. It's the only time I remember all of us working in the vineyards together. Dad was trying to teach us a lesson about work ethic—Dad always said he was teaching work ethic, though I can say now the only thing I learned from him about work was do things his way, or else.
Bourgeois Shares "Devil" Talk on The Steer
On The Steer podcast, Wendy Bourgeois talks with Sunny Bleckinger about marrying criticism and the personal essay.
The Devil Says Maybe at Happy House
Wendy Bourgeois and Matthew Robinson read at Happy House.
A World Outside Ours
By Keri Thomas
Does what animals feel bear some resemblance to what we feel?
Join Us October 30 at Our Launch Party for The Devil Says Maybe You Like It
We’ll celebrate Wendy Bourgeois’ essay collection at Boys Fort.