Photo © Comtesse DeSpair [click here for full view] We’d like to introduce you to “The Wall.” This is where we, the PNI editors, like to exhibit “POST NO ILLS” stencil artwork and photography from our readers and other artists.

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The Indiana Review, the literary journal of the Indiana University MFA Program, just released its much anticipated Funk music and culture issue. Its editor emeritus, Abdel Shakur, came in on The One and got funky with us for some insights.

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Nduka, Uche. eel on reef. New York, NY: Akashic Books, 2007. 152 pp. $15.95 (paper). [View Title on Goodreads.com] Uche Nduka is best known as a Nigerian émigré poet living in Germany and the Netherlands. His collection The Bremen Poems (1995) has been translated into German, and other works (he’s written five other books of [...]

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As African-American literary institutions such as Callaloo and Cave Canem continue to grow in size and influence, are they really seeing the big, global cultural picture? Literary activist and D.C. icon E. Ethelbert Miller sat down with literature scholar Keith D. Leonard to drop a few eye-openers.

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Tanz, Jason.Other People’s Property: A Shadow History of Hip-Hop in White America. New York, NY: Bloomsburg USA, 2007. 272 pp. $24.95 (cloth). [View Title on Goodreads.com] To be sure, there is no dearth of critical exploration of white male obsession with and love of black masculine cool. Take, for instance, Norman Mailer’s 1957 Dissent essay, [...]

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