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Gary Phillips On Graphic Novels Featuring Robberies

Gary Phillips On Graphic Novels Featuring Robberies

A look at three great heist stories rendered in four-color

By Gary Phillips | July 13, 2026

Gary Phillips Reflects on His Reissued Classic Novel of the LA Uprisings

Gary Phillips Reflects on His Reissued Classic Novel of the LA Uprisings

"A lot has changed from thirty years ago and a lot, it seems, has not. Advances tend to foster backlashes."

By Gary Phillips | June 3, 2024

How to Turn A Man into a Legend

How to Turn A Man into a Legend

Why I chose to take real-life Arctic explorer Matthew Henson, drop him in the middle of the Harlem Renaissance, and have him solve a murder.

By Gary Phillips | February 25, 2020

Get Radcliff!: The Search for Black Pulp's Forgotten Author

Get Radcliff!: The Search for Black Pulp's Forgotten Author

Gary Phillips on the trail of Roosevelt Mallory, who helped revolutionize 1970s pulp fiction, then disappeared.

By Gary Phillips | December 10, 2019

A Brief History of the Drug War In Pop Culture

A Brief History of the Drug War In Pop Culture

From "Reefer Madness" to "Narcos," Measuring the Fictions of the Drug War Against Its Realities

By Gary Phillips | April 18, 2019

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