Sep 10, 2022
6 min read
The Queen is Dead/Not Dead
The end of the second Elizabethan Era through the tearful lens of a Black soldier in 1945 and Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘Slaughterhouse Five’
When news of Queen Elizabeth’s departure from this life flashed across my phone, I was immediately put in mind of that famous photograph of the Black soldier — an accordion strapped across his chest —…
