As Crude Reality claims to be a global history, then it isunmodish of Black to cast the United States as a centre of all innovation that is diffused to a passive non-American world.

Latino poets who are comfortable inhabiting surprising orunmodish voices--such as Rhina Espaillat, Rafael Campo, or Urayoan Noel--while affirming their Hispanic perspectives on literature, politics, and identity.

He was interested for similar reasons in (of allunmodish philosophers) the late medieval Franciscan Duns Scotus, the man who introduced the notion of individuality into scholastic thought and thus helped to set us on the long trek to modernity and Donald Trump.

The writer evidently enjoys Shakespeare and seeks to enlarge appreciation --unmodish attitudes but welcome.