As Black Power erupted at the close of the 1960s, white leftists went ducking for cover. Eric Lott finds the pitfalls of the new progressivism. When V. S. Naipaul voyages to the Muslim world, he invariably finds disorder, corruption, epic violence. Akash Kapur bears witness to the rebirth of V. S. Naipaul. As the Academy Awards confirmed, Shakespeare has once more conquered the West.
Scholars scrutinize porno flicks and Congressional records for the faintest allusion.
Nicholas Moschovakis reflects on tradition and transformation. In the 1920s, Paris swooned for black culture, celebrating boxers and dancers, poets and pygmies. But amid the primitivist pageantry, a new generation of black intellectuals was coming of age. Last summer, one of Africa's most enigmatic voices was stilled. In his last published interview, the Senegalese filmmaker talks with N. Frank Ukadike about animals, the IMF, and the magic of cinema.