Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man
“Every day, in every way, we are getting meta and meta,” the philosopher John Wisdom used to say, venturing a cultural counterpart to Émile Coué’s famous mantra of self-improvement. So it makes sense...
View ArticlePhillis Wheatley On Trial
A CRITIC AT LARGE about American poet & slave Phillis Wheatley... She had arrived in Boston on July 11, 1761, on board the Phillis, a slaver that was returning from Senegal, Sierra Leone, and the...
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