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July 5, 2025July 5, 2025 - Books, Poetry, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: Four Poems, by Jeffery Renard Allen

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Jeffery Renard Allen! Celebrate by reading Allen’s “Four Poems,” which we published earlier this year!…

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January 18, 2025 - Featured, Poetry, Reading, Writing

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.…

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July 5, 2024 - Birthday, Books, Nonfiction, Reading, Writing

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…

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August 25, 2022October 22, 2025 - Archives, Books, Nonfiction, Reading, Writing

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.…

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June 18, 2022June 28, 2022 - Books, Interview, Reading, Small Presses, Writing

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,…

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April 5, 2022October 22, 2025 - Archives, Books, Interview, Reading, Small Presses, Writing

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…

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February 27, 2020October 22, 2025 - Archives, Books, Nonfiction, Reading, Review, Writing

“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…

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