Jessica Lynne

is a writer and art critic. She is a founding editor of ARTS.BLACK, an online journal of art criticism from black perspectives.

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Danielle Evans’s Poignant Histories of the Present Danielle Evans’s Poignant Histories of the Present

Her new fiction collection The Office of Historical Corrections gives an intimate retelling of some of the debates and protests that defined the last decade.

Feb 25, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Jessica Lynne

How Visual Culture Is Implicated in Mass Incarceration

How Visual Culture Is Implicated in Mass Incarceration How Visual Culture Is Implicated in Mass Incarceration

Art historian Nicole R. Fleetwood’s Marking Time explores the creative practices and cultural institutions shaped by the prison industrial complex.

Jun 25, 2020 / Jessica Lynne

A Family, a House, a City: Sarah Broom’s Remarkable Memoir of New Orleans

A Family, a House, a City: Sarah Broom’s Remarkable Memoir of New Orleans A Family, a House, a City: Sarah Broom’s Remarkable Memoir of New Orleans

In the Yellow House, Broom traces a new map of NOLA—one that tangles with the city’s history and her own.

Nov 7, 2019 / Jessica Lynne

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