This week! Books! Will Lloyd at the New Statesman dared to ask the question on everyone’s mind today (okay maybe not everyone’s): has the literary male become terminally uncool? After scanning Granta’s list of Best of Young British Novelists and recognizing only one man, Lloyd asks, “If I – a long-time subscriber to literary journals […]
Adam Serwer
Honoring Juneteenth in the book world (This week in books)
This week! It’s Juneteenth, the holiday that commemorates the emancipation of slaves in Texas two full years after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Here are some of the articles about Juneteenth this morning that caught my eye: Jamelle Bouie on the centrality of slaves in the struggle for emancipation and a better America. Mary Harris […]
