Jesse McCarthy

Jesse McCarthy is an assistant professor of English and African and Africa American studies at Harvard and and an editor at The Point. His novel, The Fugitivities, will be released next year.

CultureAugust 8, 2019

Toni Morrison’s Cosmos

Like a new planet, she shifted the flow of gravity in American culture.

Jesse McCarthy
FictionAugust 24, 2017

Mathias Énard’s Alternative Cosmopolitanism

Ranging across the Mediterranean, his novels map out the intermediate space between East and West.

Jesse McCarthy
EuropeJune 5, 2017

The Way Forward in France

This week’s legislative elections offer an opportunity to steer President Emmanuel Macron in the direction of justice and away from a moneyed autocracy.

Jesse McCarthy
Non-fictionNovember 29, 2016

Wideman’s Ghosts

A profound sense of hope and despair haunts John Edgar Wideman’s new work of nonfiction.

Jesse McCarthy
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Books and IdeasNovember 15, 2015

Why Does Ta-Nehisi Coates Say Less Than He Knows?

The journalist’s best-selling memoir offers eloquent testimony to the vulnerability of black life, but it surrenders too much to despair.

Jesse McCarthy
FictionSeptember 10, 2015

Letters From the September 28–October 5, 2015, Issue

Ishmael Reed on life in the Major League; Scott Walker as Nixon’s protégé…

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ActivismAugust 13, 2015

The Work of Art in the Age of Spectacular Reproduction

The Internet gives us an unearned relation to the present, and the visual art of JR is perfectly aligned with it.

Jesse McCarthy
Books and IdeasJuly 30, 2015

Paul Beatty’s Savage Satire

The Sellout takes aim at black middle-class foibles and fantasies.

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Jesse McCarthy

CultureAugust 8, 2019

Like a new planet, she shifted the flow of gravity in American culture.

FictionAugust 24, 2017

Ranging across the Mediterranean, his novels map out the intermediate space between East and West.

EuropeJune 5, 2017

This week’s legislative elections offer an opportunity to steer President Emmanuel Macron in the direction of justice and away from a moneyed autocracy.

Non-fictionNovember 29, 2016

A profound sense of hope and despair haunts John Edgar Wideman’s new work of nonfiction.

The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.

Books and IdeasNovember 15, 2015

The journalist’s best-selling memoir offers eloquent testimony to the vulnerability of black life, but it surrenders too much to despair.

FictionSeptember 10, 2015

Ishmael Reed on life in the Major League; Scott Walker as Nixon’s protégé…

ActivismAugust 13, 2015

The Internet gives us an unearned relation to the present, and the visual art of JR is perfectly aligned with it.

Books and IdeasJuly 30, 2015

The Sellout takes aim at black middle-class foibles and fantasies.