On Afropessimism
Jesse McCarthy considers the writing of Frank B. Wilderson III.
— Anna Shechtman and Katie Fitzpatrick
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Jesse McCarthy considers the writing of Frank B. Wilderson III.
Kay Gabriel confronts “Females” by Andrea Long Chu.
Laura B. McGrath looks at the data to find out why the publishing industry is still so white.
"What we ultimately wish to fight for is the freedom of scholars of color to work on any object, topic, and methodology they choose."
On the outside, they may be small, defiant, and cute, but inside they are much weaker.
Sheri-Marie Harrison on "This Is America," "Get Out," "Sing, Unburied, Sing," and the new black Gothic.
Ryan Boyd reviews John Warner’s new manifesto for the writing classroom.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor reviews Saidiya Hartman's genre-defying "Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments."
How did psychoanalysis get its couch?
The crisis of criticism is in what no longer gets written, in what never gets written in the first place. Part of LARB's No Crisis series.