Selected Illustrations
New Yorker: Challenging Official Histories in “Natchez” (Film Review)
New Yorker: Britain’s Idyllic Country Houses Reveal a Darker History
New Yorker: Dredging Up the Ghostly Secrets of Slave Ships
New Yorker: The Theresa Job (extract from a Colson Whitehead novel)
Atlantic: Lost Histories of Coexistence (Book Review of a James McBride novel)
New York Times Opinion: The Brutal History That France Prefers to Ignore Is Being Heard at Last
New York Times Opinion: How I Learned That Jesus is Black
VQR: Reality Marble excerpt
VQR: Son of Frankenstein excerpt
About Michael
Michael is the author of Milk White Steed and an illustrator for the New Yorker. His work ranges from surreal autofiction to historical genre narratives that explore themes of social tension, racial identity and introspection.