Earlier this summer, I had the immense pleasure of viewing the 2019 Whitney Biennial , which is still running, for a few more weeks (until ...

For the last decade or so, I have only occasionally read  Village Voice , mostly online, but once upon a time, when I was in my 20s and ...

Sir Wilson Harris, with his final novel, The Ghost of Memory  (2006) Such is life, so death comes calling. Sir  Wilson Harris  (1921-...

UPDATE: The full and corrected version of this essay is now up at LitHub , as " Elements of Literary Style. " I'm keeping the...

This summer, I had the pleasure of chatting in person with Madison McCartha , who is currently a student in the MFA Program in Creative Wri...

The vagaries of literary fortune are such that a writer who was quite famous in her time might very well be forgotten a decade later, ...

"What does it mean to return? Is return possible? Is it desired? And if it is, under what conditions and for whom? The haunt of the ...

Here a few photos from the 2016  American Book Awards ceremony, which was held at the San Francisco Jazz Center . The highlight of the eve...

"When Cedric [J. Robinson] submitted his dissertation for approval, the faculty did not know what to make of it. One by one, indivi...

This weekend I traveled to  Oakland , California to participate in its second annual  Oakland Book Festival , on Sunday, May 22.   Thoug...

A week ago I posted about two standout examples of literary criticism, a young Barack Obama's super-concise reading of T. S. Eliot ...

Pierre Boulez, by Carlo Bavagnoli I've been of two minds about the recent deaths of two leading figures in the world of music, Pier...

On Monday, as I mentioned in my post about my HuffPost Live  appearance, I gave a reading at Rutgers-Newark  as part of the African Ameri...