
On Joy and Desire: An Interview with Sarah Ladipo Manyika
hen Sarah Ladipo Manyika reads lwaloud from her new novel—the exquisitely titled Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun—she becomes the characters…
Read Morehen Sarah Ladipo Manyika reads lwaloud from her new novel—the exquisitely titled Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun—she becomes the characters…
Read MoreAs a debut novelist, I tend to read other debut novelists. I didn’t always. I used to read mostly books that were recommended to…
Read MoreQuinn Norton’s “The Land That Never Has Been Yet” on Medium In her most recent piece for Medium, writer Quinn Norton begins with: It’s…
Read MoreI’ve just completed my first year as a full-time lecturer teaching writing at a state university, and this is, undoubtedly, the most anticipated summer…
Read MoreThe Zimbabwean novelist NoViolet Bulawayo, a group of her friends and I are at Buka, a Nigerian restaurant in Brooklyn, and we are surrounded by fish heads…
Read MoreAli Smith’s “The Human Claim” at Liberty I love the way Ali Smith writes, so I was happy to find this piece amidst 80…
Read MoreEverywhere he went, he saw them, their burned bodies, watching him. These were the days after the war. Demon Camp is not really about…
Read MoreMy aunt died recently. Although she was sick and we all knew about it, it was somehow still sudden and shocking. She was diagnosed with HIV…
Read MoreI didn’t see the jellyfish, but I felt it—a searing pain at my ankle that shot up through my leg, bringing me, in a matter of seconds, to my knees in the sand.
Read More“The Rumpus Interview With Rachel Kushner” on The Rumpus After reading The Flamethrowers, I developed a massive lady writer crush on Rachel Kushner, and…
Read MoreBooks by women for the last glorious gasp of summer! Rachel Kushner’sThe Flamethrowers Sure, I was predisposed to like Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers. The…
Read MoreJoanna Walsh’s “In Cyberspace: a love letter” in Granta Here is a thoroughly modern love story, largely enacted online, in “the place we all…
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