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The Booker Prize 2022 #12: Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley

Kiara is seventeen and desperately trying to pay the rent that has been increased yet again. After her father’s death and with her mother...

The Booker Prize 2022 #6: The Trees by Percival Everett

Money, Mississippi does not hold what its name promises but is home to an interesting set of characters who wake up to a series of brutal...

The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla

What does it mean to have to change your name for your classmates to be able to pronounce and remember it? How does it feel to be...

Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall

The term intersectional feminism was coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw to highlight how different dimensions of oppression – for example sexism...

The Sellout by Paul Beatty

The Sellout is a work of biting satire, and you best be ready for it when you open this book. Our protagonist is a young man who grew up...

Conjure Women by Afia Atakora

“The black baby’s crying wormed and bloomed.” When a pale and black-eyed baby is born in its black caul, Rue hesitates before freeing it...

Fiction and Non-Fiction by Chinua Achebe

Last week I read both an essay collection and a novel by the celebrated Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. Africa’s Tarnished Name is a...

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Poetic and heart-breaking. Those are the first words that come to mind when I think about Toni Morrison’s masterpiece Beloved. I only...

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ 2015 essay Between the World and Me is a great contemporary read to follow James Baldwin's essays. Coates picks up...

James Baldwin - Essays

I had a wonderful week: I spent it with James Baldwin's essays in The Fire Next Time and Notes of a Native Son. I first fell in love with...

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