Other Writings: Politics, Reviews, Stories

Poltical Columns

'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' All published by NewsOne.com.

'A Not So Great Day in Harlem: Clinton's Uptown Move,' Feed.com, February 2001. Reprinted by Slate.com and The Christian Science Monitor.

Reviews & Essays

'Author on tour adds a page, but not to this book,' The Boston Sunday Globe, April 27, 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 The Short Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, The Boston Sunday Globe, September 2007
       
'We Got It For Cheap,' essay, Vibe Magazine, August 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 Amiri Baraka's Tales of the Out and Gone, published in The Boston Sunday Globe, March 2007

Review of Jason Tanz's Other People's Property: A Shadow History of Hip Hop in White America, published in The Boston Globe, June 2007

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

Book review of Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk, The Boston Sunday Globe, May 2005.

'Poetic Injustice: Hip Hop Pioneer Phase 2,' Wax Poetics, Spring 2005. Cover story.

'The Case for White History Month,' op-ed, The Boston Globe, March 2005.

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

'Drum Therapy,' a tribute to Elvin Jones, JazzTimes, 2004

'The Hip Hop Intellectual,' June 2003 from Decapo's Best Music Writing of 2004

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

'Fright Club,' a review of Diary by Chuck Palahiuk, The Boston Sunday Globe, August 2003.

A review of Twelve Bar Blues by Patrick Neate, The Boston Sunday Globe, April 2003.

'In The Hood,' a review of The Hood Comes First by Murray Forman, The Boston Sunday Globe, November 2002.

'In The Shadow of O.J.', a review of Whitegirl by Kate Manning, The Boston Sunday Globe, March 2002.

'Art, Technology and Community at the Millennium: An Interview with Tricia Rose,'
Columbia: A Journal of Arts and Letters, Winter 2000.

Stories

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

Theo the Cat, a short story published in the San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Magazine, June 2006

Crown Heist, an Edgar Award-nominated short story from the bestselling anthology Brooklyn Noir.