Danzy Senna
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Danzy Senna’s Trick Mirror September 09, 2024
No one has more fun with racial terminology than Danzy Senna. In her 2007 short story “Resemblance,” the N-word—as in the politically correct referent to the racial slur—drives a hilarious Who’s on First?–style gag. “Some white kids called their blac...
Danzy Senna Is Amused by Your Mixed Feelings September 04, 2024
The sad music snuck up on us, stealing into the conversation just as we turned to the future of biracial identity. “We’re under deep suspicion at the moment,” Danzy Senna confided over lunch at the Beverly Hills Hotel, where we’d settled down at a bo...
6 New Novels to Read in September September 03, 2024
The best reads this month, from Garth Greenwell, Rumaan Alam, Danzy Senna, and more....
Work-Life Imbalance September 02, 2024
For most of her career, the novelist Danzy Senna has maintained a cagey relationship to the politics of representation. Her debut novel, Caucasia—a sweeping bildungsroman about a mixed-race girl teetering on the color line—thrust her into the spotlig...
Does the World Need a Great American Biracial Novel? August 14, 2024
Early on in Danzy Senna’s new novel, Colored Television, her biracial writer-professor protagonist, Jane, takes a meeting with Hampton Ford, a Black producer who is pivoting from network to prestige TV. Jane’s situation is less enviable. Up against a...
