Sam Huber is a writer and editor living in New Haven, CT. He is a books columnist for Feministing and a graduate student in English at Yale University.
Feministing Reads: Kathleen Collins's Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
When Kathleen Collins's 1982 film Losing Ground was screened at New York's Film Society of Lincoln Center in 2015, it immediately became inconceivable to me that film history might have been written without it.
An inexhaustible wonder of language: it never stops changing hands.
Sometimes a book magically hits shelves at just the right moment, landing felicitously for the culture at large.
Toni Morrison is a national treasure, and a new Morrison novel is a national event. Superlatives proliferate: she is among our greatest chroniclers of American history, our greatest portraitists of black communal life, our greatest analysts of subjectivity under duress, our greatest institutional advocates for black feminist literature.
In the foreword to her debut novel The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison describes how she came to write her classic story of an isolated black girl's disavowal of blackness.