Our critics on great artists who might’ve been lost to the canon. Claude McKay’s Romance in Marseille is a modern masterpiece. Photo: Courtesy of Penguin Random House Did you know they’re doing ...
In recent years Claude McKay (1889-1948), one of the most gifted writers of the Harlem Renaissance, has been enjoying his own posthumous renaissance. In 2004 his “Complete Poems” appeared; in 2017, ...
CU Boulder journal English Language Notes helps unpack the mystery of Harlem Renaissance writer and poet Claude McKay’s novel, which was unknown for 87 years For nearly 90 years, the manuscripts of ...
Claude McKay’s novel “Romance in Marseille” deals with queer love, postcolonialism and the legacy of slavery. It also complicates ideas about the Harlem Renaissance. By Talya Zax Claude McKay’s novel ...
“I wonder if I understand you rightly,” the Ethiopian prince Lij Tekla Alamaya asks his American friend Gloria Kendall. “Slavery in the Bronx, New York, in the most highly civilized city in the world?
A LONG WAY FROM HOME—Claude McKay—Furman ($3). The U.S. “Negro Renaissance” in the 1920s played to the biggest white audience since the CivilWar, started an apartment-house boom on Harlem’s swanky ...
BLACK EDGE: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street, by Sheelah Kolhatkar. The “wanted man” in Kolhatkar’s title is Steven A. Cohen, the Great ...
When a young Claude McKay spent eight months in Moscow during the early 1920s, he joined the many artists of his generation who fell hard for communism. And why not? At a time when black men like ...
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