Adam Shatz

The rise of a violent authoritarian state under Trump unveils a deep uncertainty over what America is.

The most hypnotic piece of music released so far in 2023 was recorded forty-seven years ago in a barely adequate studio in Rockland County, New York.

Reflections on Richard Wright’s recently published novel, "The Man Who Lived Underground."

Edward Said's Orientalism is still with us forty years after his influential book’s publication, but it is not the same as it was.

The rise​ of mass incarceration in the early 1970s was fueled by white fear of black crime. But the fear of crime wasn’t confined to whites.

Should white artists be allowed to depict black suffering?

“Hendrix used a range of technological innovations...to expand the sound of the guitar, to make it ‘talk’ in ways that it never had.”