Kinohi Nishikawa is Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at Princeton University. His writings on African American print and popular culture have appeared in Book History, MELUS, and PMLA. He is currently working on a book about African American literature and book design.
Kinohi Nishikawa
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Writing on Public Books
Police Brutality, a Horror Story
Victor LaValle’s new novella bridges the weird and the ordinary, and reveals the ordinary to be all the more terrifying. LaValle employs the paranormal not to reject reality, but to open a portal into the experience of everyday social marginalization. What if, muses the book’s 20-year-old African American protagonist, “another world existed within—or alongside—the world […]
