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Black and Palestinian poets’ aesthetics of solidarity bring us to new worlds

Every February, like clockwork, literary institutions— mega-chain bookstores, Amazon, Oprah, and English departments—advertise the urgent necessity of reading a Black writer. Whether it’s Invisible Man, Omeros, or Things Fall Apart, these institutions commodify and repackage Black writers into a promise to the susceptible and well-intentioned reader. The hope? Upon turning[Read More…]

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All book adaptations should be TV series.
By Charlotte Hayes, Staff Writer

For every second of Oppenheimer I enjoyed, I spent five thinking about just how long it was dragging on. I love movies and I love books, but I simply don’t think they’re a match. In nearly every movie adaptation, you end up with either one of two possible outcomes: Endless amounts of book material left on the cutting room floor, or over three-hour-long slogs that drag viewers through every last plot point, which is the case for Oppenheimer and it’s source material American Prometheus. It only seems logical to switch all adaptations to TV shows—their sequential format allows creators to relish in the small details without making audiences sit through more than an hour of material at a time.