In Erasure, Thelonious "Monk" Ellison, the lone artist in a high-achieving African American family — his brother and sister are doctors following in their father and grandfather's footsteps ...

Palestinian Americans say their stories face erasure : Code Switch On this week's Code Switch, we hear from two Palestinian American poets who talk about what it's like to be Palestinian American ...

The movie, with its handful of Oscar nominations, has refocused attention on “Erasure,” a satire of the literary world and its racial biases. By Sarah Lyall and Alexandra Alter There’s a ...

Nov. 30, 2023 In the framing device of “Erasure,” the novel was Monk’s journal, and as such it was highly erudite and often arcane. Few will miss its more obscure passages here, but ...