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Jeffrey C. Stewart on the Genesis of Alain Locke’s Transformative “New Negro Aesthetic”

Jeffrey C. Stewart on the Genesis of Alain Locke’s Transformative “New Negro Aesthetic”

"In putting race and aesthetics in conversation with one another, Locke forever changed our understanding of both.”

By Jeffrey C. Stewart | January 18, 2022

Émile Zola was a bad art friend.

Émile Zola was a bad art friend.

By Walker Caplan | January 14, 2022

Exit Wounds: On the Roots of Violence—and Its Complicated Aftermath

Exit Wounds: On the Roots of Violence—and Its Complicated Aftermath

"Fear nests within other fears, is encircled by it."

By Jonathan Gleason | January 14, 2022

James Joyce was only 9 years old when he published his first poem.

James Joyce was only 9 years old when he published his first poem.

By Walker Caplan | January 13, 2022

Leigh Stein on Reading Anne Frank During Quarantine

Leigh Stein on Reading Anne Frank During Quarantine

On the Extraordinary Work of Diarists to Create Meaning from Dramatic, Quotidian Times

By Leigh Stein | January 13, 2022

Lewis R. Gordon on the Development of Black Consciousness

Lewis R. Gordon on the Development of Black Consciousness

Living "Beyond Negative Projections" of White Supremacy

By Lewis R. Gordon | January 13, 2022

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A Glimpse Inside the World’s Most Beautiful Libraries

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Lou Cornum on Leslie Marmon Silko's Magnum Opus

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The Right to Potential: On the Dramatic History of Women’s Elite Running

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Danielle Friedman Considers the Groundbreaking Impact of Kathrine Switzer

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No Sympathy for Horrid Women: On the History of George V and the Demands of the Suffragettes

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Jane Ridley Considers the King's Callous Treatment of Radicalized Activists

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