Zadie Smith’s ‘Swing Time’ Does a Difficult Dance
Learning from the past is not as simple as pressing rewind: it's a dance that's quite difficult to execute.
William Harrison
William Harrison is a freelance writer based in Brooklyn. In addition to writing for PopMatters, he is a frequent contributor to Dwell Magazine and New York Arts.
The City as Autobiography in Darryl Pinckney’s Black Deutschland
Leaping from one fragmented city to the next, Pinckney’s narrator uses history to simultaneously define and obscure himself.