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Meet Me in the Bathroom
Is the First Great History of New York’s 21st Century Rock Scene
In the future, some emotionless musicologist may look back at the Strokes and wonder why they were such a big deal. Why all the fuss…
Jeremy Gordon
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May 23, 2017
Culture
Hari Kunzru’s
White Tears
Is a Hypnotizing Ghost Story About Stolen Black Culture
When Seth, the protagonist of Hari Kunzru’s new novel White Tears, meets a record collector who might be able to sell him a vinyl containing…
Jeremy Gordon
/
May 1, 2017
Features
Rachel Dolezal’s Book
In Full Color
Presents No Good Reason For Her Assumed Blackness
Rachel Dolezal, now legally known as Nkechi Amare Diallo, starts her memoir with a flagrant heavy-handedness. In Full Color: Finding My Place in a…
Brian Josephs
/
March 29, 2017
Culture
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Marlon James’s New Books Will Be a
Game of Thrones
-Inspired African Fantasy Trilogy
Very cool news for fans of Marlon James: the Man Booker-winning writer of A Brief History of Seven Killings and The Book of Night Women will publish three fantasy…
Andy Cush
/
January 10, 2017
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Erez Avissar
Digital Crate Digging With DJ /rupture
When DJ and music writer Jace Clayton began working on his new book Uproot, he had a deceptively simple premise in mind: "that really…
Andy Cush
/
October 6, 2016
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Joyride
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