Further Reading
White Privilege: A Manifesto
by Seth Michelson
—found in an interview with actor Levar Burton, who is African-American Listen: I’m gonna be honest with you. This is a practice I engage in every time I’m stopped by law enforcement. I’ve taught this to my son, now thirty-three, as part of my duty as a father to ensure he knows the kind of […]
THE HOLY BOOK OF THE BEARD by Duff Brenna
an excerpt from THE HOLY BOOK OF THE BEARD by Duff Brenna New American Press 360 pp. $14.95 This is no wing for an unripe wit. If these feathers flutter too swiftly for you, put this page away, read Sports or Obits, or the gluttony of Heloise, Section E, p. 5. To such-a-one who lingers over […]
The Death of Z
by Thomas Jacobs
The Nobel laureate Zoroaster Zigsari was gunned down outside a tapas restaurant on Calle Cava de San Miguel on the eve of his seventy-sixth birthday. There was no question who was responsible. He was one of the regime’s fiercest critics. He had become, he told me, inured to their constant threats of death. Twenty years […]