Rene Solomon

When the filmmaker Jazmin Jones was growing up, she thought of Mavis Beacon—the face of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, a...

In the summer of 2015, back when he was still talking to traitorous reporters like me, I spent extended stretches...

For a poor, Black son of the South like me, beginning life in Jim Crow’s grip, the haughty, heady world...

Donald Trump says something crazy or vicious almost every time he speaks. It’s his nature, but it’s also a political...

When the critic Janet Malcolm set aside a biography of Sylvia Plath and began reading a memoir about the author...

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Donald Trump’s far-right worldview has a lot of critics, many of them Republicans, who argue that Ronald Reagan would “roll...

I saw this guy tonight in Adam’s Point, by the lake—the sun was getting low, so I’d taken a break...

David Ramos / GettyGold medalist Mauricio Valencia of Team Colombia poses for a photo during the medal ceremony for the...