Contemporaries Essays

“African Writers in a New World”: An Introduction

Interviews Curated by Aaron Bady

Interview: Maaza Mengiste

In the first interview for this series, the novelist Maaza Mengiste spoke with me from New York City, on the thirteenth anniversary of 9/11. We discussed her acclaimed first novel, Beneath…

[_]Tree[_] of C[___]od[__]es

Matt Rager

“What the ghost wants”: Kevin Young’s Ekphrasis

Stefanie Wortman

Looking at ekphrasis in this way can help us to see it as another in a series of projects to undermine or complicate the centrality of self in the lyric.