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'... Levine writes that the spirit world was an alternative to the one in which masters and overseers dominated. For the enslaved, it was 'a world they shared with each other and which remained their own domain, free of control of those who ruled the earth.''

New York Times Books This story, told by a Black man named Henry Garry, is the one I've thought of nearly every day since I read it. The victim of a lynch mob professing his innocence from beyond the grave, from inside the tree where he was killed.

'Black spirituality might have been perceived through a racist lens, but there are other ways of seeing.'

A perfect sentence Jennifer Wilson.

'Black spirituality might have been perceived through a racist lens, but there are other ways of seeing.' Great read from Jennifer Wilson about the 👻 stories the Federal Writers' Project gathered in the 1930s. nytimes.com/2022/10/28/boo…

Wrote about Marilyn Nance’s extraordinary photos from FESTAC ‘77, the largest pan-African gathering of the twentieth century. Her new book with (olu)remi onabanjo, “Last Day in Lagos” is a one-of-a-kind family album of nations newyorker.com/culture/photo-…

For enslaved people, ghost stories — or “hant stories,” as they were colloquially called — were part of a belief system that, as one historian wrote, prevented “legal slavery from being spiritual slavery.” Jennifer Wilson on a unique set of ghost stories. nyti.ms/3sD5Mvd

A world of thanks to my editor Emily Eakin!

If you like me love Isaac Babel and the literary legacy of the shtetl, tune in tomorrow to hear my dear friend Sasha Senderovich 🌻 discuss his new book 'How the Soviet Jew Was Made.' twitter.com/returnstosende…

a modest contribution … my The New Yorker postscript for mike davis, who was about hope and new worlds, not doom, and who was right about so much that it’s incumbent we believe he was right about the youth, those who fight on, and the future, too newyorker.com/news/postscrip…

The incomparable Mike Davis leaves us. RIP.
thenation.com/article/cultur…

As Brittney Griner is denied in her appeal of a nine year prison sentence in a labor camp for having a couple vape cartridges in her bag, a reminder of what the conditions of her imprisonment actually look like. thenation.com/article/societ…

-I would really love to ask you about your position as a writer who’s also institutionalized, as it were, within a university.

-I’m glad you added, “within a university.”

Amazing. So excited for Percival Everett season.

theunnamable.substack.com/p/percival-eve…

Major red flag! twitter.com/blgtylr/status…