Yogita Goyal

Yogita Goyal teaches literature and African American studies at UCLA, and is editor of Contemporary Literature.

No Mere Slogans: On Isabel Wilkerson’s “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents”

Yogita Goyal reviews Isabel Wilkerson’s new book, “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.”...

POLITICS

HISTORY

CULTURAL STUDIES

No Strangers Here

Refusing polarized narratives, Toni Morrison's "The Origin of Others" takes up the nebulous task of understanding what it is to estrange or make familiar....

MEMOIR & ESSAY

Coming Home from Irony: An Interview with Percival Everett, Author of “So Much Blue”

Yogita Goyal talks to Percival Everett about appropriation, "Get Out," Los Angeles, and his new novel....

FICTION