September 10, 2024
Brycchan Carey— How can reading about the eighteenth-century abolitionist movement help environmental and social justice activists today? This is a question I kept always in mind while writing The Unnatural… READ MORE
July 1, 2024
Bigger Thomas, the central figure in Richard Wright’s novel Native Son, eludes easy categorization. In Bigger: A Literary Life, Trudier Harris examines his continued relevance in debates over Black men and the violence… READ MORE
July 2, 2020
A quotation from the French philosopher and political activist Simone Weil is the first thing the reader encounters upon starting chapter one of To Describe a Life: Notes from the Intersection… READ MORE
June 8, 2015
Simran Chahal— After the recent and controversial release of India’s Daughter, a documentary regarding the brutal gang rape of 23 year-old physiotherapy student Jyoti Singh in 2012, many questions are… READ MORE
Moving Mountains in Nineteenth-Century France
