Jan 23, 2025 · Percival Everett’s “James,” a posthumous memoir by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and Adam Higginbotham’s acclaimed work about the Challenger disaster are among the nominees for National Book Critics Circle prizes.

Jan 23, 2025 · Percival Everett’s “James,” a posthumous memoir by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and Adam Higginbotham’s acclaimed work about the Challenger disaster are among the nominees for National Book Critics Circle prizes ... an excellence in reviewing prize for New York contributor Lauren Michele Jackson and a public service award ...

Jan 23, 2025 · The recipient of the 2024 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing is Lauren Michele Jackson, ... Patriot: A Memoir by Alexei Navalny, translated from the Russian by Arch Tait with Stephen Dalziel (Knopf) BIOGRAPHY. Candida Royalle and the …

Mar 3, 2023 · In Vladimir Putin’s march toward dictatorship, one of the darker moments was the poisoning of the opposition leader Alexey Navalny, almost certainly by the Russian F.S.B. security services....

The citation is awarded in honor of Nona Balakian, a founding member of the National Book Critics Circle, and comes with a cash prize of $1,000. The winner of the 2024 Balakian Prize is Lauren Michele Jackson. The finalists are listed below. Joanna Biggs; Sarah Chihaya; Rhoda Feng; Lauren Michele Jackson; Jeremy Lybarger

Feb 20, 2024 · According to Russian accounts, the 47-year-old took a short walk at his Siberian penal colony, said he felt unwell, then collapsed and never regained consciousness. On Saturday, Navalny's...

May 14, 2024 · Her essay sent me to her 2019 collection, White Negroes, about the appropriation of black culture by a wide range of actors: pop stars, artists, hipsters, chefs, people making and sharing memes online—a world of “black aesthetics without black people,” as she put it.

Jan 17, 2025 · Three lawyers for Alexey Navalny, the Kremlin critic who died last year in an Arctic prison, have been found guilty by a Russian court of belonging to an extremist group and jailed for several...

Lauren Michele Jackson (born 1991) is an American culture critic and assistant professor of English and African American studies at Northwestern University. Her first book, White Negroes (2019), is a nonfiction collection of essays that explores cultural appropriation .

Jan 23, 2025 · NEW YORK (AP) — Percival Everett’s “James,” a posthumous memoir by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and Adam Higginbotham’s acclaimed work about the Challenger disaster are among the...