Review Archives – Scalawag

'The rest of the world tells us that these bodies are killing us'

by Ko Bragg September 2, 2021September 2, 2021

The author of 'Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness' in conversation about "the Black fat" and the nonbinary, trans-masculine experience.

In Review: 'Can these bones live?'

by W.J. Lofton July 23, 2021July 23, 2021

Akwaeke Emezi: 'A dead thing sentenced to life'

by Ko Bragg June 11, 2021August 9, 2021

Author Anjali Enjeti reckons with Asian American identity in white-dominant culture

by Deirdre Sugiuchi May 7, 2021May 7, 2021

In the face of anti-trans bills, 'Mama Gloria' is a blessing

by Antonia Randolph April 23, 2021April 23, 2021

Freedom wasn't given—it was seized

by Samantha Willis April 6, 2021April 7, 2021

'Pure America': Eugenics past and present

by Adam Willems March 2, 2021March 3, 2021

Review: One Night in Miami

by Khayla Deans February 23, 2021March 3, 2021

From Appalachia to Outer Space: The beauty and the limits of perspective in Portraits & Dreams

by Kim Kobersmith December 7, 2020December 7, 2020

When all hell breaks loose, North Carolina returns to the cypher

by Kyesha Jennings October 13, 2020October 13, 2020

Sasha Rewrites Uhmareka

by Jamara Wakefield September 22, 2020December 3, 2020

This I Know For Sure: Remembrance and freedom in Jaki Shelton Green's The River Speaks of Thirst

by Alysia Harris August 12, 2020December 3, 2020

Postcolonial Love Poem: 'How do you maintain your tenderness?'

by mónica teresa ortiz June 24, 2020December 3, 2020

Arts & Soul, Race & Place

Breathing while Black in Mossville, Louisiana

by Danielle Purifoy June 18, 2020October 21, 2020

Ballad of a Land Man: Kentucky theatre takes on fracking

by Kim Kobersmith June 3, 2020September 16, 2020

"No Place Like Home" Notes from opening night at The Miami Third Horizon Caribbean Film Festival

by Zaina Alsous February 26, 2020December 3, 2020

Southern Politics

Fighting voter suppression in the South will make or break the 2020 elections

by Anna Simonton October 9, 2019September 16, 2020

In the living room with Aretha and James and C.L.: Review of Amazing Grace

by Antonia Randolph September 9, 2019March 26, 2021

How Lil Nas X started a Viral Revolution

by Luna August 26, 2019September 16, 2020

The Bell Cannot be Unrung: Intimacy and Witness in the Art of Jenny Fine

by Julie Anton July 1, 2019September 16, 2020

'We are each other's magnitude and bond:' a review of Santuario

by Diana Clarke June 10, 2019December 3, 2020

'Two more plantations still standing:' a review of Edgecombe

by Adam Padgett June 3, 2019September 16, 2020

Abolitionist Global Funk Visual Opera

by Ra Malika Imhotep April 22, 2019June 23, 2021

Growing Up Gay in Appalachia: Anthology Shares Poetry and Prose of a Region

by Anna Patrick April 15, 2019December 3, 2020

Mountain Justice: Appalachian women fought for workers long before they fought for jobs

by Heather Duncan March 25, 2019September 16, 2020

Southern Politics

The South is Everywhere

by Danielle Purifoy March 18, 2019September 16, 2020

One Sweet Hand: 'Sugar Run' by Mesha Maren

by Corinne Manning January 28, 2019September 16, 2020

Southern Politics

Review: In Blue Texas, all that is old is new again

by Sammy Feldblum May 2, 2017October 27, 2020

Review: Class war and the Confederacy in "Free State of Jones"

by Cedric Johnson October 6, 2016October 1, 2020

Chatting with Virginia's "dark, drastic" new novelist

by Eric J. Wallace June 22, 2016December 3, 2020