Love and Memory illustration “Touching the Sky: New York’s

“Touching the Sky: New York’s Evolving Skyline in a Bold Age of Innovation

I won just as I thought I would

published with The Times Opinion article

headed against a wind of more than 20 miles an hour

we shall fight in the hills

Love and Memory illustration “Touching the Sky: New York’sThis image by Simone Martin Newberry accompanied Danez Smiths January 2021 review of Robert Jones Jr.s debut novel, The Prophets. In their poetic and personal review, Smith describes Joness book as, an often lyrical and rebellious love story embedded within a tender call out to Black readers, reaching across time and form to shake something old, mighty in the blood. The highly anticipated book tells the story of Isaiah and Samuel, two enslaved boys on