Smith tells Egan, “There are these moments where, as a nonfiction writer, you’re like, Oh, the path has been laid out for me. New York Times Book Review editor Elisabeth Egan talks to Clint Smith, whose new book How the Word Is Passed, is based on a road trip the author took in search of stories about slavery in the US. They’re desperate, and they need change.” And they’ve changed strategies many times. They welcome everybody, including people who are not welcome in other movements. Take the Palestine solidarity movement: that’s a movement that needs to be as effective as it can be.
Considering what it takes to get people to commit to a collective aim, Schulman responds: “It was a state of emergency.
They talk about the group’s tactics and charisma, and how disagreements within a movement can prove effective. It would appear that Dean Baquet, executive editor of the New York Times, has a “go-to superlative construction.” The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple counts instances when Baquet has referred to different Times journalists as “one of the finest journalists of her generation,” and advises “an easy way out” of the predicament: “Just lay it on thicker.”įor Jacobin, Alex Press interviews Sarah Schulman about her new history of ACT UP New York. Their work is a testament, Rudick writes, to Ellison’s belief that culture can be “a place of limitless freedom, where the artist, writer, poet and musician could express the fullness and complexity of Black life.”
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“How can an artist render what isn’t there? But plenty of artists have embraced this conceptual challenge.” Gordon Parks, who worked with Ellison in 1952 to interpret the then-new novel into an image series for Life magazine, was the first in this line of artists, which includes Ming Smith, Kerry James Marshall, Hank Willis Thomas, Jack Whitten, Cladia Rawles, and others. “Invisibility may seem antithetical to visual art,” Rudick writes. For T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Nicole Rudick considers the numerous visual artists who have drawn inspiration from Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man.
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