Ishmael Reed

If “Hamilton” is subversive, the mischievous Reed asks, what is it subverting?

Proudly embracing their role as outsiders, a group of writer-activists set out to create a cultural identity—and a literature—of their own.

Autopsies of a changing publishing industry; frustrations with readers' tastes; and sympathies for poets and authors drawn to commercially hopeless genres.

The scholar has changed the way Black authors get read and the way Black history gets told.

Hamilton is an impossibly slippery text. The arguments over the show are part of what make it great.

Oakland’s lopsided boom.