Zell Visiting Writer Christina Sharpe reads from her book, “Ordinary Notes,” in the UMMA Stern Auditorium Thursday evening. Christina Sharpe speaks into a microphone on a wooden podium. Julianne ...

The art of everyday Black experience. In Ordinary Notes, Sharpe considers Black culture “in all of its shade and depth and glow.” Days after Tyre Nichols was killed by five Memphis police officers ...

Christina Sharpe’s radical, profound new book, “Ordinary Notes,” gathers 248 consecutively numbered notes spread over eight individual parts. Sharpe takes some of her section titles from the Oxford ...

In her new book “Ordinary Notes” Toronto writer and professor Christina Sharpe assembles in a beautifully produced volume a series of notes and images that explore questions about loss and “the shapes ...

In Ordinary Notes, a extraordinary work of memoir, poetry, and criticism, she writes a love letter to Black art. “The ‘past’ fails to stay in the past,” writes Christina Sharpe in Ordinary Notes.