Criticism
The Beauty of Michael Jordan by Malik Wilson
September 15, 2025
in this short monoscript, Malik Wilson tells a telling tale. Were you there? Do you remember? Just how it was? Just how overwhelmed we were, impressed, forsaken? Excellence, and with a rhythmic attachment. Commitment, in a loose-masculine glow. Our great American Baryshnikov, sauntered down, having always won, and always winning. In The Beauty of Michael Jordan, Malik Wilson reminds us that the Greeks had it right - the centrality and beauty of competition, a woesome desire to stay as we are, can sometimes be interrupted - spiritually even - by a kind of irredentist glory, reminding us of things beyond words, things before words.