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An Emptiness Yet to Come

By José Mármol translated by Nathalie Handal, with Eileen O’Connor

The Sad Ballad of Wyckoff

By José Mármol translated by Nathalie Handal, with Eileen O’Connor

The Harvest

By Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler

Anna Bruno: Suspense, Secular Gods, and Scandal in an Elite Catholic School

Maria Kuznetsova Interviews Anna Bruno

Kiese Laymon

Kiese Laymon is a black Southern writer, born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. He is the author of the novel Long Division and a collection of essays, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America.
Interview Lit WorldRace

Eve Ewing: Other Means to Liberation

By Kiese Laymon October 17, 2017
The poet and sociologist’s gleefully unorthodox work on blackness.
The American South: On the Map and in the Mind Commentary Race

Hey Mama

By Kiese Laymon March 17, 2014

A black mother and her son talk about language and love in the South.

Race in America Essay RaceUSA

You Are The Second Person

By Kiese Laymon June 17, 2013

You wondered out loud what writing “multiculturally” actually meant and what kind of black man would write the word “bro” in an email.

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