Aaron Robertson is a writer, an editor, and a translator of Italian literature. His 2019 translation of Igiaba Scego’s Beyond Babylon was short-listed for the 2020 PEN Translation Prize and the National Translation Award, and in 2021 he received a National Endowment for the Arts grant. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Foreign Policy, n+1, The Point, and Literary Hub, among other publications. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Aaron Robertson
Articles
Bourgeois Dreams, Black Rebellion
In an excerpt from “The Black Utopians,” Aaron Robertson writes on the early years of Albert Cleage Jr. and Detroit’s Black bourgeoisie.
Martyr at the Picnic Table
Detroit Open City
Detroit is the great American Twilight Zone, where the macabre and the redemptive flow daily in almost equal measure.
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