Adam Mansbach books events bio videos music interviews other writing
Other Writings: Politics, Reviews, Stories Book review of Pym by Mat Johnson, in The New York Times Sunday Book Review, March 4, 2011 Book review of Journal of a UFO Investigator by David Halperin, in The Boston Sunday Globe, February 7, 2011 'Reading,' n+1, January 31, 2011 Interview with Pharoahe Monch, The Believer, January 2011 'Adam Mansbach presents Perez Prado,' La Pelanga, December 2010 'Adam Mansbach Responds to Boston Globe Screed on Hip-Hop Studies,' NewBlackMan, December 14, 2010 'Living With Music: A Playlist by Adam Mansbach,' in The New York Times, July 14, 2010 Book review of War Dances by Sherman Alexie, in The Boston Sunday Globe, February 21, 2010 'Tragedy in a minor key gets most of us to hum along,' Essay, in The Boston Globe, February 21, 2010 Book review of The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason, in The New York Times Book Review, February 14, 2010 ". . .and the 'hood pass'", Op-Ed, in The Boston Globe, February 13, 2010 Book review of Monsieur Pain by Roberto Bolaño, in The Los Angeles Times, January 10, 2010 'On Vinyl,' in Etiqueta Negra, Fall 2009 'All The Words Past The Margins: Adam Mansbach and Kevin Coval Talk Understandable Smooth Shit,' from Born To Use Mics, edited by Michael Eric Dyson and Sohail Daulatzai, published by Basic Civitas, December 2009 Book review of In the Valley of the Kings by Terrence Holt, in The Los Angeles Times, September 13, 2009 "The Audacity of Post-Racism," from The Speech: Race and Barack Obama's 'A More Perfect Union,' (Bloomsbury), edited by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting. August, 2009. Also published on TheRoot.com. Book review of The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, in The Los Angeles Times, August 9, 2009 Book review of Subway Art by Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant, in The Boston Globe, August 8, 2009 'What is Jewish Culture?,' essay, Jewish Culture Foundation of Holland, July 23, 2009 Book review of FOUNDATION: B-Boys, B-Girls, and Hip-Hop Culture in New York by Joseph Schloss, in The Boston Sunday Globe, May 24, 2009 Book review of Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead, in The Boston Sunday Globe, April 26, 2009 Book review of Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop by Adam Bradley, in The Los Angeles Times, February 19, 2009 Book review of 2666 by Roberto Bolaño, in The Boston Sunday Globe, November 30, 2008 'Soul Sides Summer Songs 08: Adam Mansbach,' Soul-Sides.com, July 14, 2008 Book review of All About the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America by John McWhorter, in The Los Angeles Times, June 19, 2008 'Author on tour adds a page, but not to this book,' The Boston Sunday Globe, April 27, 2008 'The End of the Jews: a Listening List,' Random House, February 1, 2008 Book review of Sway by Zachary Lazar, in The Boston Sunday Globe, January 2008 'Soul Serch-ing,' interview with MC Serch, Guilt & Pleasure, Fall 2007 'Essays on BDP-ism,' Giant, Fall 2007 Book review of Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation by Eboo Patel, The Boston Globe, August 2007 'On
Lit Hop' published in the anthology Total Chaos: The Art
and Aesthetics of Hip Hop, edited by Jeff Chang Review of Queens Reigns Supreme by Ethan Brown, The Boston Sunday Globe, January 2006. 'A
Spontaneous Moment: An Interview with Sonny Fortune,' published
in Wax Poetics, 2005 'Poetic Injustice:
Hip Hop Pioneer Phase 2,' Wax Poetics,
Spring 2005. Cover story. A review of Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland, from The Boston Globe, February, 2005 'Lose
Your Edge,' on Eminem, and 'ODB, RIP,"
on the life and legacy of Ol' Dirty Bastard, both from San Francisco
Bay Guardian, November 25-31 A review of The Night Country by Stewart O’Nan, from The Boston Sunday Globe, 2004 A review of When Washington Was in Vogue by Edward Christopher Williams, from The San Francisco Chronicle, 2004 A review of You Remind Me of Me by Dan Chaon, from The Boston Sunday Globe, 2004 A review
of And It Don’t Stop: The Best Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years, edited by
Raquel Cepeda, from The Boston Sunday Globe, 2004 A True and Faithful Account of Mr. Ota Benga the Pygmy, Written by M. Berman, Zookeeper, from the anthology A Fictional History of the United States With Huge Chunks Missing (Akashic, 2006), Adam Mansbach and T Cooper, editors. A
History of the Recent War Crown Heist, an Edgar Award-nominated short story from the bestselling anthology Brooklyn Noir. Adam's 2008 Weekly Political Column for NewsOne.com: 'The Collaspe of Independent Hip Hop Media', 'Geraldine Ferraro Ruins Her Obituary', 'A Hypothetical Question', 'Post-Race-Ism', 'On Hope', 'The Superdelegate Factor', 'An Open Letter to Senator Clinton', 'The Clintons and the Black Community', 'Bill at the Convention', 'Blacks, Jews, and Barack Obama', 'Church and State', 'Falling Off', 'I Am Not A Racist', 'Satire', 'Swing Voter', 'Wither the Hip-Hop Mayor', 'Baseball and Hair, Manny Being Manny', 'The End of Racism'. 'A Not So Great Day in Harlem: Clinton's Uptown Move,' Feed.com, February 2001. Reprinted by Slate.com and The Christian Science Monitor. |
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