Select Works

Literature

“An alternative to acceptance”: Namwali Serpell on Writing Grief (Harvard Review)

Juneteenth Reading List (Vulture)

Review of My Body by Emily Ratajkowski (Vulture)

40 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Fall (New York Magazine)

Arts Criticism

Requiem of Light: Ming Smith’s Early Vision (Boston Art Review)

Inside the Aims and Aspirations of the New Rubell Museum in Washington, D.C. (Artsy)

Raelis Vasquez Translates His Family’s Emigration Story into Tender Paintings (Artsy)

Washington's National Gallery of Art surveys five centuries of African influence on Western art (The Art Newspaper)

The Black Collectors Who Championed African-American Art during the U.S. Civil War (Artsy)

How Nefertiti Became a Powerful Symbol in Contemporary Art (Artsy)

Film + TV

Perfidia’s Precedents: On One Battle After Another and Revolutionary Betrayals (Lux)

You couldn’t breathe until the trees were gone (Africa is a Country)

The Legend of Flying Africans (Africa is a Country)

Hollywood’s Black Snitches Aren’t Telling the Whole Story (Vulture)

Interview with Amin Joseph (Vulture)

Snowfall, Season 5 Recaps (Vulture)

Atlanta, Season 3 Recaps

Essays

Depreciating Assets (Lux)

Never Knew a Love Like This Before: Eight Wild Stan Stories to Read Before You Watch 'Swarm' on Prime Video (Complex)

Negrita (The Offing)

Schemas

The Unofficial Coven of Black Vampires (The Believer)

A Pop-Cultural Autopsy of the Black Woman Medical Examiner (The Believer)

Poetry

Trials (Hayden’s Ferry Review)

Bad News (The Journal)

Fiction

Discretion (Meetinghouse)