Most people just see the sphinx. Then they notice the circles looped onto the sphinx’s backside, connecting it to an inexplicable J shape. Then the eye moves up to the name of a 1920s magazine: “FIRE!

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract While other New York writers despaired of finding home in America's wasteland after World War I, African American writers like Langston Hughes ...

In A Matter of Complexion: The Life and Fictions of Charles W. Chesnutt (St. Martin’s, Feb.), the Bowdoin College literature professor chronicles the life of novelist Charles W. Chesnutt. How did ...

This collection, which dates from circa 1901-1940, contains 37 books from African-American authors associated with the Harlem Renaissance. These materials were purchased in support of the exhibit "The ...

And dish water gives back no images. In 1926, the poem “No Images,” by nineteen-year-old Waring Cuney, won a literary contest hosted by Opportunity, a prominent magazine of Black culture published by ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is displaying “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism” beginning on Feb. 25 until July 28, featuring some 160 works by artists of the Harlem Renaissance and ...

The celebrated Harlem Renaissance author was inspired by her experiences as a mixed-race teenager and young adult in the Danish capital, a time that informed her 1928 novel, “Quicksand.” Retracing the ...

Pop culture critic Miles Marshall Lewis explores the throughline from the Harlem Renaissance to hip-hop in The Met’s new exhibition. A stone’s throw from Harlem, on the stately campus of Columbia ...

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A guest stop to read parts of the “FIRE!” magazine at entrance of the Silhouette exhibition inside The Wolfsonian - FIU on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, in Miami Beach, Florida. Carl Juste ...