The Small Blades Hurt

The cover of "When Rap Spoke Straight to God" side by side.

“Sometimes you just need to be told about yourself”: An Interview with Erica Dawson

Heraclitus, the “Weeping Philosopher,” described Sybil as “[a] frenzied mouth [that] utter[s] things not to be laughed at, unadorned and unperfumed, yet reaches to a thousand years with her voice by aid of the god.” Erica Dawson’s remarkable new book describes our tumultuous present with all the tenacity of Sybil.