November 2025. PRE-ORDER NOW The Before Columbus Foundation, founded in 1976 by Ishmael Reed and others, is “dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of contemporary American multicultural literature.” It operates on the premise that storytelling traditions existed thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans, which counters the myth that storytelling begins with the Puritan… Read more »

NOVEMBER 2024. This wide-ranging collection of essays explores various milestones and landmarks of American music, theatre, dance–and life in general. From Elvis Presley to Kabuki, from dance to destruction, Blank dissects how culture, society and politics have intersected–sometimes for the better, often not. The title essay, written after the events of October 7, 2023, looks… Read more »