Bill Littlefield
These micro-fictions can feel slight, funny, or confounding—but their strange imagery and off-kilter observations occasionally land with surprising force.
Wilbert L. Cooper examines the paradox of Black police officers seeking safety and status inside an institution shaped by racial violence.
In Neil Van Leeuwen’s challenging book, belief and imagination overlap in ways that are provocative, unsettling, and unexpectedly illuminating.
“The Yahoo Boys” dissects a global grift fueled by digital intimacy, economic despair, and willful belief.
A powerful new book exposes how the fear of Black liberation shaped the American legal order—and how the legacy of the slave patrol endures today.
Jean Trounstine’s debut blends hard-won insight with high drama in a prison story of guilt, resistance, and survival.
Ross Barkan is a good enough of a writer to have avoided the trap of making this novel just an anti-Trump protest.
Mary Helen Washington’s biography of Paule Marshall provides a thorough consideration of the writer’s achievement and a convincing case that her fiction and her public speeches deserve continuing attention and respect.
Another informative, if unsurprising, contribution to the literature dedicated to understanding “criminal behavior,” especially among teenage boys and young men.
“Prison Abolition For Realists” makes a strong case for persevering in a contest that will probably take a long time to win.
Film Music Commentary: Why “The Odyssey” Should Have Been a Silent Film