"We can bear almost anything when it is worked through collectively. Grief is generally thought of as something personal and insular, but when we publicly share loss and pain, we lessen the power of the forces that debilitate us, while at the same time building the humane social practices that alleviate suffering and improve quality of life for everyone. Addressing tragedies from Fukushima to Palestine, incarceration to eviction, AIDS crises to border...

"A vibrant collection of personal and lyric essays in conversation with archival objects of Black history and memory"--

The Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic uses the books of the Trump era to argue that the response to this presidency reflects the same failures of imagination that made it possible.