Amiri Baraka

The Man Who Created the Trade Paperback

Michael Castleman on the Life and Times of Jason Epstein, Cofounder of “The New York Review of Books”

 
By Michael Castleman  July 18, 2024
Jazz

In Honor of Duke Ellington: Here Are 15 Great Books About Jazz

By Ed Simon  May 24, 2024
Harlem Renaissance

Respectability Be Damned: How the Harlem Renaissance Paved the Way for Art by Black Nonbelievers

By Anthony B. Pinn  May 24, 2024
Reading Lists

A Century of Greatness: The Best African American Literary Anthologies

By Kenton Rambsy  April 11, 2022
Imprisoned Writers

Chris Hedges on Teaching Playwriting in Prison

By Chris Hedges  October 21, 2021
Cartoons

Magnificent Obsession: On Black Humor and the Necessary Lessons I Learned as a Cartoonist

By Charles Johnson  June 24, 2021
Jazz

How Malcolm X Inspired John Coltrane to Embrace Islamic Spirituality

By Richard Brent Turner  May 4, 2021
Poetry

Lorna Dee Cervantes on Allen Ginsberg and the Interplay Between Beat and
Chicano Poetry

By Lorna Dee Cervantes  December 21, 2020
Dance

Ntozake Shange on Sun Ra and How She Came to Have Her Name

By Ntozake Shange  November 23, 2020
Black Arts

Are We in the Middle of a Black Art Renaissance?

By Patrick A. Howell and Mavin L. Mills  August 12, 2020
Anti-Colonialism

Amiri Baraka’s Anti-Epic Poem About America’s Destruction

By Michael Leong  July 28, 2020
Disappearing Archives

When LeRoi Jones Went on
The Merv Griffin Show

By Harmony Holiday  April 11, 2019
Feature

20 Notoriously Underrated Writers You Should Be Reading

By Emily Temple  June 5, 2018
Deep Dive

Your Pocket Guide to 10 Literary Movements

By Emily Temple  April 5, 2018
What to Read

10 College Courses to Read Along With This Semester (From Your Couch)

By Emily Temple  September 6, 2017
Poets

What Poetry Can Teach Us About Power

By Matthew Zapruder  August 16, 2017
Craft

The Weird Stenographer: Sam Shepard on His Long Writing Life

By Emily Temple  August 1, 2017
Poets

Walter Mosley: On Being Black, Being a Writer, and Cave Canem

By Walter Mosley  June 8, 2017
What to Read

The Books That Made Your Favorite Writers Want to Write

By Emily Temple  April 26, 2017
Archives

Listen to Rare Recordings of Eileen Myles, Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, and More

By Emily Temple  November 21, 2016
What to Read

Where Is Our Black Avant Garde?

By Zinzi Clemmons  January 29, 2016
End of Year Lists

The Best Poetry Collections of 2015

By Adam Fitzgerald  December 31, 2015
Essay

The Greatest (Sellout) Generation

By Buzz Poole  November 3, 2015
Poets

The Legacy of Amiri Baraka: Four Poets

By Literary Hub  April 20, 2015
Criticism

The G closes in on a riot

By Harmony Holiday  April 20, 2015
Deep Dive

Amiri Baraka, Politics, and Tough Love

By Evie Shockley  April 20, 2015
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