Tag: Harlem
Colson Whitehead surprises with part two in “Harlem Trilogy”
— What if I had been bored? I don’t want it to say ‘he never finished his trilogy’ in my obituary,” Colson Whitehead told The Guardian. Colson Whitehead says that…
Return to Great Depression Harlem, with Louise Meriwether
Fifty years after its publication in the United States, comes out in French translation this year, a great book of the canon of black American literature. Papa ran les paris…
Jacques Schwarz-Bart, black sax in Harlem
Through his jazz melodies, Guadeloupean saxophonist Jacques Schwarz-Bart invites us on an inspired musical journey to the temple of world jazz: New York and the Harlem district. The new album…
Claude McKay’s Marseille Harlem
/ Podcasts / The march of the world Welcome to Claude McKay’s Marseille Harlem. The American writer arrived in the French colonial city in the 1920s, frequented dockers and prostitutes…