The obits for Amiri Baraka are coming thick and fast—at The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, NPR, Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. I don’t think this is surprising or ...

Chicago had Carl Sandburg. Paterson had William Carlos Williams. And Newark was lucky enough to have two: Amiri Baraka and Philip Roth. Hard to imagine two writers more different. Or, possibly ...

Then Baraka, the son of iconic poet Amiri Baraka, resorted to metaphor. “They have to have a leader, because all the boats look good on the shore," he said. "It’s only when they get in a storm ...