Walter White and Bleeding Brown: On Breaking Bad’s Race Problem
by Chris Prioleau, Co-Editor in Chief During its run, Breaking Bad was one of the best shows on television. It was as intense and scintillating as anything ever broadcast; the... Read More
Rethinking War Journalism
Friend of Apogee Sara Novic has a great essay up at The L.A. Review of Books on the West’s relationship to journalists in war zones: Are the limits of Western... Read More
Not Just Guilty: A White Response to the George Zimmerman Case
This is the first of two essays that reflect on what has happened in the months since the trial of George Zimmerman. You can read Apogee’s original response to the... Read More
A Queer Aperture: Mia Nakano and the Visibility Project
by Cecca Ochoa, Editor Mia Nakano is a photographer, served as the founding photo editor for Hyphen Magazine, and is currently the lead artist for the Visibility Project. In... Read More
Representing Difference In Writing – The Rumpus
The Rumpus has posted a thoughtful essay by Delaney Nolan about writing poor, black characters as a white fiction writer. The purpose of good literature, as far as I can... Read More
The Gray Area: Gentrification in Manhattan's Hamilton Heights
by Alexandra Watson, Editor-in-Chief As a mixed-race graduate student at Columbia living in Hamilton Heights, a neighborhood in Harlem destined for “urban renewal,” my relationship to the word... Read More