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MF DOOM Obit: How Rap Created a Supervillian for the Ages, mf doom

Wearing a mask and speaking in the third person, DOOM wasn’t just playing around with golden-age comic-book tropes. He was calling into question the very relationship between identity and image in hip-hop. ....

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Tyriek White with Elizabeth Lothian and Joseph Salvatore

On the occasion of the awarding of the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Rail Books section co-editors Elizabeth Lothian and Joseph Salvatore interviewed 2023 recipient Tyriek White about his debut novel We Are a Haunting. In their conversation, White discusses troubling the boundaries between Western ideas of life and death, writing a story about growing up in a predominantly Black and brown, blue-collar neighborhood, and how Brooklyn to him represents an attitude, a demeanor, and a set of principles. ....

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