Genre memoirs stink. I don’t mean the books themselves. Plenty of them do stink, surely, just like any other kind of book. But some of them are great. READ MORE >>
Touré has been frustrating me lately. READ MORE >>
January 08, 2013
Is It OK for White Music Critics to Like Violent Rap?
“It is this which defeats us, which continues to defeat us, which lends to interracial cocktail parties their rattling, genteel, nervously smiling air … Wherever the Negro face appears a tension is created, the tension of a silence filled with things unutterable.” — James Baldwin, “Many Thousands Gone,” 1951 READ MORE >>
