On June 4, 1972, Angela Davis was acquitted of kidnapping and murder. Her trial still resonates
A volume of essays by and about the radical Black thinker Angela Davis deals with her time in U.S. prison and has disturbing relevance today.
31 Days of Stories 2020, Day 31: “Home” by Langston Hughes
First published in 1934, Langston Hughes’s story throws a spotlight on racial violence that continues in America today.
31 Days of Stories 2020, Day 30: “Now More than Ever” by Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith’s controversial story is a dystopian satire about call-out culture.
31 Days of Stories 2020, Day 29: “Book Review” by Nancy Hale
Nancy Hale’s story about the dangers of poisonous political ideologies is surprisingly relevant to our current moment.
31 Days of Stories 2020: Day 28: “South Congress” by Bryan Washington
Bryan Washington’s story is about a veteran drug dealer who becomes a kind of surrogate father to an undocumented Guatemalan teen.
31 Days of Stories 2020, Day 26: “Ships in High Transit” by Binyavanga Wainaina
Binyavanga Wainaina’s story is about the performative cultural roles people are expected to play.
31 Days of Stories 2020, Day 24: “Sardonicus” by Ray Russell
Ray Russell’s 1961 modern Gothic tale has lost none of its power to shock its reader.
31 Days of Stories 2020, Day 22: “Things to Do When You’re Goth in the Country” by Chavisa Woods
Chavisa Woods’s expressionistic story is about feeling like an outcast in the place you were born.
31 Days of Stories 2020, Day 21: “For Smokers Only” by Julio Ramón Ribeyro; Katherine Silver, trans.
Peruvian writer Julio Ramón Ribeyro’s semi-autobiographical story investigates the metaphysical pleasures a smoker finds in cigarettes.
31 Days of Stories 2020, Day 18: “Brutto” by Helen DeWitt
Helen DeWitt’s story is about the fraught tension between artistic integrity and fame.