Solange unveils free library of rare works by Black artists and writers
Singer-songwriter, performance artist and actress Solange announced last week—via her Saint Heron foundation—that she would use the organisation’s site to host a free digital library of rare works by Black… Read more »
So much drama in the LRB
The 2010s were a watershed decade for representation. Diversity in all forms of media came to the fore as a major issue, riding on a groundswell of people pushing for… Read more »
Twenty-five years after her death, what Audre Lorde left behind most definitely has a life of its own
“I’m finishing this piece of my bargain. And what I mean by that is it doesn’t matter how long it takes to finish it—I don’t know—but that that is the… Read more »
Happy eighty-eighth birthday of Adrienne Rich, everybody
The world is a crazy medley of cymbals and cuckoo-clock noises, and it’s an excellent moment to reach for ballast to the writing of Adrienne Rich, who would have turned eighty-eight today.… Read more »
William Shakespeare, Audre Lorde, and “a cool example of culture jamming” at UPenn
Years after the English department at the University of Pennsylvania voted to replace a portrait of William Shakespeare with something that would “represent more diversity in writing,” the Bard was… Read more »
An interview with CAConrad, the Library of Congress’s least favorite poet
CAConrad has seen trouble before. A self-described “son of white trash asphyxiation,” the celebrated Philadelphian has lived, as the old curse has it, in interesting times. And he’s never been shy about… Read more »