Lauren Michele Jackson teaches in the Departments of English and African American Studies at Northwestern University. She holds a PhD in English language and literature from the University of Chicago. Her writing about race and culture has appeared in the Atlantic, New Yorker, Paris Review, Essence, New Republic, Teen Vogue, Rolling Stone, and New York magazine, among many other places. She lives in Chicago. Photograph by Jorge I. Cotte
Lauren Michele Jackson
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The Hipster
It happens every year. Besides the “Best of” lists that heave into view as early as late November, there are the conspicuous “Worst of” lists. Contrary to their tone, these lists also itemize the things we enjoyed most over the past year, if only too much. These things became part of our daily routine, infiltrated […]
