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“There’s Nothing New / Under The Sun, / But There Are New Suns”: Recovering Octavia E. Butler’s Lost Parables| Los Angeles Review of Books
Lance Phillips • January 28, 2025 Two pins I gifted myself two lapel pins over the winter holidays. Two pins for two very different purposes. The first pin is a silver and smoky quartz classic lapel pin. It is vintage and delicate and has, as they say, seen some things. When I told my wife […]| Brownicity
Lance Phillips • December 03, 2024 “There are tears for things.” Engaging with the world only in the way you want it to be is misguided, heartbreaking, and dangerous. I’m going to do my best to weave together three disparate things, all of which speak to acknowledging what is in front of you as a […]| Brownicity
Lance Phillips • October 29, 2024 As it happens, a rather famous poet is coming to the college where I teach to read from his work and to address the student body. I was asked to contribute a few ideas about which he could, possibly, speak. In the course of thinking about this request, thinking […]| Brownicity
