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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/seeing-red-red-caps-coming/"></div>One afternoon in France this summer, I saw a man wearing a red baseball cap, branded with the slogan “Make America Great Again.” And a few days later, in Prague, I saw a few men on the street wearing the same cap, all in the same afternoon. One of the men in Prague even noticed me looking at his cap, which then committed him to eye contact. <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/seeing-red-red-caps-coming/#more-5212" class="more-link">Read more</a>
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Seeing Red (Or, the Red Caps are Coming)

<h4>Micah McCrary’s essays, reviews, and translations have appeared in Essay Daily, Assay, Brevity, Third Coast, and Midwestern Gothic, among other publications. He co-edits con•text, is an assistant editor at Hotel Amerika, and is a doctoral student in English at Ohio University.</h4>

Micah McCrary

Coming to Terms with Impermanence

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954

Comics

“My Story Doesn’t Begin When I Was Born”: Micah McCrary Interviews José Orduña

Explaining Ourselves to Ourselves

Many Layers, Many Guises

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

Riding the Blinds

In Praise of Nothing

In Praise of Interruption

Micah McCrary’s essays, reviews, and translations have appeared in Essay Daily, Assay, Brevity, Third Coast, and Midwestern Gothic, among other publications. He co-edits con•text, is an assistant editor at Hotel Amerika, and is a doctoral student in English at Ohio University.