Hawa Allan

Hawa Allan is a lawyer and a writer of cultural criticism and fiction whose work has appeared, among other places, in Best African American Essays, the Chicago Tribune and Tricycle Magazine, where she is a contributing editor. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago and Columbia Law School, where she was a fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Culture.

Spinoza and the All-American Novel: Ranbir Singh Sidhu

Ranbir Singh Sidhu has his character read Spinoza as his route to freedom in “Deep Singh Blue.”...

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FICTION

Humanitarian Intervention at Home

Relating "whether Ferguson demonstrators are mostly marauding looters or merely exercising their freedom of speech" to United States foreign policy....

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CULTURAL STUDIES

Vacare Oprah: The Gospel of O

VACARE DEO — “to empty oneself for god” — is a central monastic tenet. In practice, it involves a daily routine of contemplation, say meditation or prayer, that clears space in one’s life to be infused by ...

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