In advance of the second season of Netflix’s original series, Orange Is the New Black, which will be released on Friday, June 6, we asked Public Books contributors to share their views on the show’s ...
Kaveh Landsverk
Kaveh Landsverk is a PhD candidate in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His research concerns African diaspora literatures, incarceration, and speculative fiction. 
Dudes, Bodies, and Criminals
For those accustomed to the dry wit of judicial opinions, there is an undeniable charm to a novel that, within its first ten pages, paraphrases the 1966 Miranda v. Arizona US Supreme Court case with ...