Stanley Crouch, 1945–2020 Stanley Crouch, 1945–2020
Even many of those who at times wanted to throttle Crouch will miss him now that he’s gone.
Oct 12, 2020 / Gene Seymour
Change Comes to the Streets of Philadelphia Change Comes to the Streets of Philadelphia
The uprising here may have been inevitable. But the aftermath has been full of surprises.
Jun 17, 2020 / Gene Seymour
Why Is Cory Booker Still Running For President? Why Is Cory Booker Still Running For President?
Down in the polls, ignored by the media, Booker refuses to quit.
Oct 8, 2019 / Feature / Gene Seymour
Remembering Les Payne (1941–2018) Remembering Les Payne (1941–2018)
Reflections on the journalism pathbreaker.
Mar 30, 2018 / Gene Seymour
Have We Reached the End of Jazz Itself? Have We Reached the End of Jazz Itself?
John Coltrane and other “lost” musicians of the ’60s are teaching a new generation of artists to bend time and space.
Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour
‘Koch,’ ‘The Central Park Five,’ and the End of Doubt ‘Koch,’ ‘The Central Park Five,’ and the End of Doubt
Two movies about a long-gone New York raise questions about the city it has become today.
Apr 17, 2013 / Feature / Gene Seymour
The Virtual Realist The Virtual Realist
Philip K. Dick has become the most influential and prophetic of late-twentieth-century science fiction writers.
May 10, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour
The Odd Couple The Odd Couple
In Sound and Fury, sportswriter Dave Kindred examines the intersecting lives of Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell.
Apr 6, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour
Crouching Tiger Crouching Tiger
Being Stanley Crouch is about as bruising a vocation as there is in what passes for--or remains of--polite literary society.
Apr 28, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour
Show Me the Money! Show Me the Money!
Toward the end of the undervalued 1979 movie adaptation of former pro football receiver Peter Gent's undervalued 1973 novel, North Dallas Forty, a beat, bent lineman, played by t...
Feb 10, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour