The American Reader, decease dubbed by Vice as “The New Paris Review”, treatment is a monthly journal of poetry, short fiction, reviews and criticism; it was released last year online and in print (gasp!) by literary zeitgeist Uzoamaka Maduka.
While it mostly focuses on literature, the Reader recently posted a piece titled “Yeezy Rising”, in which critic Tessa Brown comes to the defense of the egoist West, explaining that he is, for the United States, “the black man who refuses to stay dead”. Brown builds an interesting argument; she uses primary sources: from the lyrics of “New Slaves” to horribly racist tweets sent at Kanye in response to his infamous interruption of Taylor Swift- she even recalls French philosopher Michel Foucault and his theory of panopticism. If you consider yourself a Kanye fan, or a thoughtful person, this is worth the time, regardless of your opinion on the critique itself.