Book Review
‘All the Water I’ve Seen Is Running’: A novel in review
September 29, 2021The idea of collective shaping of a clear vision of how the world is and how it ought to be is a central theme of Rodriques’s first novel All the Water I’ve Seen Is Running.
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‘Fearing the Black Body’ uses history to dismantle fat phobia, health inequality
September 2, 2021Strings does a fine job of collecting all of this material for the reader to take in, but her voice gets lost in all the facts and data. At times, 'Fearing the Black Body' reads like...
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‘Morals of the Market’: When human rights cover for neoliberal hegemony
August 30, 2021It's a timely book, as shown by the escalating accusations between the U.S. and Chinese governments over what constitutes human rights.
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The art of the (street) deal: More honest than Trump
August 18, 2021After seeing his business taken from him, Huey concludes that in a “country founded on capitalism” where “Black people were the first commodity sold on Wall Street…as soon as black people find a way to build...
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History as upheaval and progress enters stage with novelist Walter Scott
August 13, 2021Born 250 years ago, Walter Scott showed another kind of historical novel is possible from the ones we see today.
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