Newark Natives Philip Roth and Amiri Baraka, two of the city’s most acclaimed literary figures, were “near-exact contemporaries,” award-winning poet, author and educator John Keene said on Wednesday, ...

Eyeminded : commentary / Amiri Baraka -- Preface to a twenty volume suicide note / Amiri Baraka -- A.K.A. Saartjie : The Hottentot Venus in context (some reflections and a dialogue), 1998/2004 -- ...

I’ll give Andre Gaines’ new, weird adaptation of “The Dutchman” this much: the first big movie of any given year is usually a horror film, but it’s rarely a supernatural riff on a classic, ...

Amiri returns, in different roles, and speaks to Lula as if they were an angel and devil fighting over Clay's immortal soul. By the time "The Dutchman" lays it all on the line, it's clear that Gaines ...