Erik Gleibermann is a social justice journalist, memoirist, and poet in San Francisco. He has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Poets & Writers, Oprah Daily, Slate, Black Scholar, Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and World Literature Today, where he is a contributing editor. His book-in-progress is Jewfro American: An Interracial Memoir.
Erik Gleibermann
Articles
A Road Atlas for Self-Reckoning
Erik Gleibermann confronts the elusive father figure in his review of “Someone Like Us,” the third novel from acclaimed Ethiopian-American writer Dinaw Mengestu.
Poetry as an Act of Survival: A Conversation With Safiya Sinclair
Erik Gleibermann interviews Safiya Sinclair about her memoir “How to Say Babylon.”
“An Ancestry’s Worth of Broken Hearts”: On Tiphanie Yanique’s “Monster in the Middle”
A scintillating novel about the complexities of race and the dislocations of migration.
The Social Solitude of Adrienne Rich: A Conversation With Ed Pavlić
Erik Gleibermann interviews Ed Pavlić about his new book, “Outward: Adrienne Rich’s Expanding Solitudes.”
Queer Nigerians Rewrite the Body
Erik Gleibermann on the emerging generation of LGBT Nigerian writers.
On Interracial Love: Why James Baldwin’s “Another Country” Still Matters
"Another Country" does not celebrate interracial love; it suggests only its fragile possibility, showing a racial America stripped bare.
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