Tag: Doreen St. Félix

  • National Geographic has made a rare, and refreshing, admission of past racism. But its most recent cover story undermines this corrective.

  • Senna’s latest novel, the slick and highly enjoyable “New People,” makes keen, icy farce of the affectations of the Brooklyn black faux-bohemia in which Maria, a distracted graduate student, lives with her fiancé among the new “Niggerati.” Maria and Khalil Mirsky—the latter’s name a droll amalgamation of his black and white Jewish parentage—are the “same…