Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Jeffery Renard Allen! Celebrate by reading Allen’s “Four Poems,” which we published in 2025! Then…
Four Poems, by Jeffery Renard Allen
Mar Azul —for Cesária Évora Blue-tinted parishioners wander in and out of a church gold-stained with morning sun.…
From the Archives: Reading the Blind and Blacking the Beyond: African American Fiction and Influence Theory in the Twenty-First Century, by Jeffery Renard Allen
Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Jeffery Renard Allen! Celebrate by reading Allen’s “Reading the Blind and Blacking the Beyond: African…
Reading the Blind and Blacking the Beyond: African American Fiction and Influence Theory in the Twenty-First Century
By Jeffery Renard Allen In an illuminating essay written not long before his death, the celebrated German novelist W.…
From the Archives: An Interview with John Keene, by Jeffery Renard Allen
Happy birthday, John Keene! Celebrate by reading Jeffery Renard Allen’s epic conversation with Keene, about the latter’s Annotations and Counternarratives,…
An Interview with John Keene, by Jeffery Renard Allen
In memory of Binyavanga Wainaina, Randall Kenan, and Greg Tate Jeffery Renard Allen: I’d like to hear your thoughts…
“All War Is Deception as Is All History”: Structure and Time in The Daydreaming Boy, by Jeffery Renard Allen
The aesthetic and thematic concerns of Micheline Aharonian Marcom’s layered and contradictory novel The Daydreaming Boy hinge on a…