Notes of a Native Daughter Notes of a Native Daughter
The title does neither the book nor its author any favors.
Mar 4, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour
Poisoned Ivy Poisoned Ivy
Much as I hate to, I'm going to start by talking about the damn money. I'm only doing it because almost everyone else is. It's not just the author profiles and publishing-trad...
Jul 3, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour
We’ve Gotta Have It We’ve Gotta Have It
Black filmmakers seize the moment.
Mar 27, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour
Wild, Wild West Wild, Wild West
You may have read, in these pages and elsewhere [see Danny Goldberg, "Harvard Raps West," February 4], about the flap that Harvard University's president, Lawrence Summers, kicke...
Jan 24, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour
…Stinging Like a Bee …Stinging Like a Bee
Anyone with first- or even secondhand knowledge of the real-life subject must have wondered what strain of myopia possessed those producing the 1991 TV miniseries Separate bu...
Jan 7, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour