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Writers

Darryl Pinckney

Arts Movies & TV

Some Different Ways of Looking at Selma

The dramatic liberties a much-heralded film takes with historical fact show how hard it is to get complexity onto the big screen.

Darryl Pinckney New York Review of Books Feb 2015 15min Permalink

Arts

Ethics of Admiration: Arendt, McCarthy, Hardwick, Sontag

A literary memoir.

Darryl Pinckney The Threepenny Review Sep 2013 30min Permalink

Arts Media

Obsessed With As The World Turns

“As a middle-aged queer, I could not break cover. And, as a middle-aged black man, I was embarrassed that these white boys from this melodrama mattered to me anyway.”

Darryl Pinckney Harper's Feb 2010 Permalink