New Selected Stories

by Thomas Mann

As the young American writer Brandon Taylor forcefully put it recently, every work of the imagination by a writer tagged as Black or minority tends to get reduced to testimonials of identity, certainly in our present cultural moment: “You are no longer writing about what it means to contend with the imponderables and unruly quandaries of life. You are writing about what it means to contend blackly with the black imponderables and the unruly black quandaries of black life.”