This Week in Essays
A weekly look at some of the essays we’re reading online!
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The Read Along: Neda Semnani
I picked up The Odyssey because I wanted to read about wanders and refugees. A story about a man who takes a decade to get home and is on a quest for safety seemed like a good place to start.
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Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Shaelyn Smith reviews Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreFerguson, Personally
Rembert Browne flew to Ferguson last week. Out of interest in the town’s newfound notoriety, the crowds contesting it, and the general ennui surrounding Contemporary Black Youth, the usual-sports writer compiled the meat of his thoughts in an essay for Grantland: The history of being black in America is the history of nonviolence versus “fight […]
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