Jesse McCarthy
Author
Language
English
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Description
After a chance encounter with an ex-NBA player with his own regrets, recent college graduate Jonah Winters, unsure of what's next, heads to Brazil where he slowly forms an understanding of self, community, and freedom that is rarely afforded to young black men
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This is a very smart and soulful book. Jesse McCarthy is a terrific essayist." --Zadie Smith. A supremely talented young critic's essays on race and culture, from Toni Morrison to trap, herald the arrival of a major new voice in American letters
Author
Language
English
Description
Even as our world has suffered through successive upheavals, Jesse McCarthy contends, "something was happening in the world of culture: a surging and unprecedented visibility at every level of black art making." Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul? reckons with this resurgence, arguing for the central role of art and intellectual culture in an age of widening inequality and moral crisis.
McCarthy reinvigorates the essay form as a space not only for...