Brian Goldstone

Brian Goldstone is a fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University. He is currently at work on a book entitled “The Miraculous Life: Scenes from the Charismatic Encounter in Northern Ghana.”


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Where Fragile Things Die

In 2005, long before Taiye Selasi was being hailed for her fiction writing as “a totally new and near perfect voice,” she published a brief online essay that sought to define the emerging cohort of young, urbane, culturally hybrid Africans among whom she counted herself.1, “Bye-Bye, Barbar,”The LIP, March 3, 2005. ] Thus was born (or […]