This ambitious retelling of the American story, by a historian who is also a Native American, places Indigenous populations at the center, a shift in perspective that yields fresh insights and thought-provoking questions.
Gregory Cowles THE REDISCOVERY OF AMERICA: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. Erin Langston on Twitter: 'Utterly and completely flabbergasted to see this stunning review of Forever Your Rogue in The New York Times 'Nathaniel Travers.
We also like Henri Cole’s collection of sonnets and, in nonfiction, a history of encyclopedias, a consideration of the suicidal impulse, and a look at the central but little-recognized role that Native Americans have played in the shaping of the United States. Wortham calls the book, aptly, “a mosaic that holds the relentless terror of Black life as well as its undeniable beauty,” then quotes Sharpe on her aims for the notes she has assembled here: “I wanted them to have a certain kind of force and velocity and accumulation.” (They have exactly that, according to Jennifer Szalai’s thoughtful review, as well as a radical sense of integrity and resistance.) Maybe add that to your reading list this week?Īlso recommended: a historical romance and three other novels (about World War II-era Singapore, an Indian family expelled from Uganda and a competitive swimmer who turns into a mermaid). Have you had a chance yet to dive into Jenna Wortham’s terrific profile, in last weekend’s Times Magazine, of the writer and thinker Christina Sharpe? A professor of English literature and Black studies in Toronto, Sharpe is also the author of the new book “Ordinary Notes,” a pointillistic examination of the ways that Blackness intersects with the culture at large, for better and for worse. And then you come across Forever Your Rogue by Erin Langston. Forever Your Rogue by Erin Langston March Story of the Month - poems by wordle, by justawillowtree.
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